[open-bibliography] Metadata for data dumps

Fri Mar 5 15:51:44 UTC 2010

Hi Adrian,

I guess the Void vocabulary is a good starting point. Here is the pointer: http://rdfs.org/ns/void

Best,
Bernhard

On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Adrian Pohl wrote:

> Hallo,
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> my name is Adrian Pohl. I am very happy that this working group was launched by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Thank you, Jonathan. I am working at the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz, http://www.hbz-nrw.de) one of the six german library consortia. For some time now we are delving into Linked Open Data, its technical, political and legal problems.
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> Hopefully we will soon put a few bibliographic databases in the public domain in cooperation with some libraries. Naturally, there are some questions coming up about how to best open up raw data. Besides the questions where to put the data and how to best time and announce this act (questions we will answer by ourselves) I got a question you might be able to help me with:
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> How should I describe raw datasets? Does a vocabulary exist so that I can describe the relevant properties of a dataset (size, number of records, format, date of export, extent: whole database or part, query parameters if only a part is opened etc.)?
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> I think it would be a good thing to describe an open raw dataset with an rdf-file so at least the dataset could be a Linked-Data-Resource as a whole... I've been searching for a vocabulary for quite a while but couldn't find one. Any suggestions or do we have to create a vocabulary ourselves?
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> What kind of vocabulary uses CKAN? Are there any plans to describe the open datasets in rdf? Is the OKFN perhaps already working on a vocabulary, Jonathan & Rufus?
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> Looking forward to your answers
> Adrian
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