[Open-data-census] Information about forms available?

Thu Oct 16 07:58:53 UTC 2014

Dear all,

Thank you so much for your prompt answers and friendly welcome.

I have been working in the area of Semantic Web/ Linked Open Data (LOD) since 2000. Open data for me is more than just openess and has much to do with what in some documents here you (this community) call "comparability". I guess that by "comparability" you mean "semantic interoperability", but I am not sure. Anyway, I have been working in the range of scope of the Dublin Core community, in particular with metadata, encoding schemes and application profiles [1]. The technologies and languages I deal more with are RDF (turtle and RDF/XML), RDFS and SKOS.

The Centre for Computer Graphics (CCG) [2], with which my research group works, is willing to map, or at least scan, the open data landscape in some portuguese municipalities. I've checked the analysis you've been doing and (1) we want to contribute; and (2) we want to add one dimension to our analysis - the LOD dimension. Regarding this dimension, I have sketched nine parameters, gathered in three groups,  for which I ask your feedback/suggestions:

ATRIBUTES / METADATA ELEMENTS / PROPERTIES
- The names of attributes are clearly defined;
- The names of attributes are standardized/ used by a wide community of practice;
- The names of attribute are identified by a URL;

SYNTAX ENCODING SCHEMES [3]
- Units of measure and/or datatypes are clearly defined;
- Units of measure and/or datatypes are standardized/ used by a wide community of practice;
- Units of measure and/or datatypes are identified by a URL;

VOCABULARY ENCODING SCHEMES [3]
- Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are clearly defined;
- Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are standardized/ used by a wide community of practice;
- Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are identified by a URL;

I could add some more parameters related to the format in which the data is presented (XML? RDF?...) but I think that for now I would be happy enough if I found some data for which I could put a "yes" in some of those parameters I've just listed.

Does this make any sense to you? Do you want to make any suggestion/addition?

Thank you in advance,

Ana Alice Baptista

[1] - http://dublincore.org/
[2] - http://www.ccg.pt/en/presentation/
[3] - http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Glossary/Encoding_Scheme

P.S.  for the portuguese speakers: thanks! I will contact you.

________

Ana Alice Baptista
http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~analice
ALGORITMI Research Centre / Information Systems Department
School of Engineering, University of Minho
P-4800-058-Guimarães

A 2014/10/15, às 17:31, Mor Rubinstein escreveu:

> Hello Ana, 
> 
> Welcome to the census mailing lists!
> 
> First, the archive can be found here: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-data-census/
> 
> Second, if you need more information, we added some specific detailed information for some of the questions in the tutorial.  Feel free to add questions or comment in it.
> 
> Lastly, if you want to see our blog post in Portuguese, the guys from OKFN Brazil translated it here - https://pad.okfn.org/p/%C3%ADndice-dados-global. Other than that, you can join Ricardo here. :-) 
> 
> Good luck and looking forward to see some new submissions from Portugal :-) 
> Mor
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Ricardo Lafuente <r at manufacturaindependente.org> wrote:
> Hi Ana,
> 
> There's already a decent community, judging from the relevant PT presence at OKfest with 10+ people :-)
> 
> While there isn't one unified "open data community", there has been a lot of work done in Porto (http://transparenciahackday.org), Lisbon (http://flipside.org/notes/open-data-maker-night-iv/) and Coimbra (http://improvecoimbra.org). The groups are loosely connected and have been working on open data initiatives for some time. 
> 
> I'm involved in the Transparência Hackday activities, and would recommend a look at our mailing list and forum to get acquainted with what has been done in the last few years.
> 
> Cheers,
> :r
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2014 04:28 PM, Ana Alice Baptista wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> 
>> I'm new to this mailing-list and I could not find any archives, so I am sorry if this question has already been answered. As far as I understood from the video at [1] the forms for submitting datasets have enough information about all the questions. What I would like to know, however, is if this detailed information is available in a downloadable document (word, html,...) and, if yes, where I can find it.
>> 
>> My second question is related to community building: are there any portuguese or people from portuguese speaking countries around willing to start a portuguese speaking open data community? If yes, could you please email me?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Ana Alice Baptista
>> 
>> [1] http://global.census.okfn.org/contribute/
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ana Alice Baptista
>> http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~analice
>> ALGORITMI Research Centre / Information Systems Department
>> School of Engineering, University of Minho
>> P-4800-058-Guimarães
>> 
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