[open-bibliography] Metadata for data dumps

Fri Mar 5 18:46:12 UTC 2010

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> As others have already pointed out for *rdf* datasets the way to go is
> probably VoID. If your dataset isn't rdf then it is a little more
> complicated since VoID is very rdf/linked-open-dataset oriented. One
> option is just to use dct:Dataset. At the moment we are using a
> combination of these approaches for the RDF version of ckan data ...

If memory serves Richard's Data Catalog Vocabulary [1]  integrates
dublincore, void and adds some new terms so that it is not just for
RDF datasets. I guess I'll have to wait for their server to get back
online to confirm though.

//Ed

[1] http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat