[open-bibliography] Metadata for data dumps

Fri Mar 5 16:09:52 UTC 2010

Hi Adrian:

You might want to look at Richard Cyganiak and Fadi Maali's brand new
Data Catalog Vocabulary:

  http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat

Several deri.ie sites seem to be down for maintenance right now, but
it's worth checking out when they come back. I think Richard and Fadi
are looking for feedback...

//Ed

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Adrian Pohl <pohl at hbz-nrw.de> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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.)?
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Looking forward to your answers
> Adrian
>
>
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