[publicdata-eu] Countries on publicdata.eu

[Jonathan Gray]

Yes indeed! This is all very interesting and (in my opinion) highly
relevant to publicdata.eu.

Any tips on existing metadata standards / data models for this kind of
area would be greatly appreciated.

I suggested to Martin that we could set up some kind of publicdata.eu
'bounties' on domain/region specific metadata / metadata standards
that we are interested in. A metadata mapping exercise, if you will.

Then we can perhaps start drilling down into a few domains (e.g.
legislation, finance or energy data) to start aggregating and
harmonising this from around Europe.

What do people think? Workable? Problematic? ;-)

J.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:48 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> * [2011-02-07 14:42:56 +0100] Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] We might as well start a proper discussion on what our long-term goals
> ] regarding geo features are and what some low-key first steps in
> ] achieving those might be (using NUTS, perhaps?).
> ]
> ] We should also find a terminology for describing how data relates to
> ] territory (describes in part, describes in full,
> ] exclusively/non-exclusively, ...). I know very little about this, what
> ] would be some interesting things to investigate here?
>
> To widen this a little bit, there are varying dimensions
> to be considered. For example, suppose th Deutsche
> Entwicklungsdienst produces some country reports or
> statistics or maps about the DR Congo. Is the spatial
> component German or Congolese? So actually there is
> a spatial component on the source or author of the
> data as well as the data itself.
>
> -w
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