[open-government] Socrata Open Data Standards - Your Thoughts?

Fri Nov 16 13:24:38 GMT 2012

I would like to hear more about this- we are about to adopt Socrata as our platform and we would like to adhere to a common data standard. So far as I can tell there is a draft proposed by the W3C and Saf from Socrata has indicated a desire to partner with the City of Raleigh to go down the path of creating a standard. From a regional perspective we would certainly like our data to be interoperable.

Best regards and thank you Rufus for the links.

Best regards

Jason Hare
Open Data Program Manager
City of Raleigh - Information Technology
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From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Rufus Pollock
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Subject: Re: [open-government] Socrata Open Data Standards - Your Thoughts?

I would note there is already quite some work on an *existing* data catalog standard both in the form of DCAT [1] and in terms of a protocol (which and I colleagues have contributed to):

http://spec.datacatalogs.org/

There is also the work at: http://www.dataprotocols.org/

Rufus

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/

On 15 November 2012 21:18, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com<mailto:tlauriau at gmail.com>> wrote:
Greetings all;

I would love to hear your thoughts about these proposed standards?

I see Open Geospatial Consortium, linked data ideals and DOI, data and preservation and infrastructure as missing.  But I do not know enough to know if those matter in this context.

It would be good to hear from science, libraries, archives and so on these matters.  I am concerned that data preservation, dissemination and management practices as seen in CODATA, GEOSS, GSDI, ICPRS, OGC and IASSIST and others.  Also, that groups are not overlapping much.  More so, these principles and standards might become the norm, and they may negatively influence data policy if not done well at the beginning.

Sincerely
Tracey

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