[the-datatank] DCAT & The DataTank

Thu May 9 16:26:17 UTC 2013

My thoughts were similar to your last point: should we support the CKAN 
API or should we support DCAT immediately? Which one is more extensible? 
Which one is easier or which one has more front-ends already?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 05/09/2013 06:18 PM, Marc Portier wrote:
> thx for adding the feature request,
>
> getting back to your question: what kind of discussion are you seeking?
>
>
> your question seemed to hint about the "if/should" while I'm now 
> getting the impression we should start on the "when/how"  ?
>
>
> getting into that I would suppose:
>
> * (repeating myself) make sure a put-format is supported, since 
> expressing more richness will become increasingly stressful with 
> request params
>
> * indeed a GET in rdf using dcat as you propose makes immediate sense
>
> * the PUT of that format as-well is probably slightly over the top
>
> * looking at how tdtinput is injecting and creating new resources from 
> it's jobs I would suggest that the needed extra tripples for that 
> could be injected through the mapping file (some preamle allowing for 
> some sort of resource-discription)
>
> * I'm not well-versed into CKAN, but
>   * I believe there is a mapping between the dcat vocabulary and ckan
>   * and I vaguely remember CKAN has some delegation-query model or 
> feed-syndication support?
>   * so I suppose venturing into supporting that might be useful as well?
>
>
> anyone else more thoughts or needed corrections on my wild assumptions?
>
> -marc=
>
>
>
> 2013/5/9 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org 
> <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>>
>
>     Hi Marc,
>
>     This is indeed a quick and important fix. I have added it as issue 42:
>
>     https://github.com/tdt/core/issues/42
>
>     The DCAT is still To Be Discussed as an interesting next feature
>     which may be developed as part of the Open Data portal for Flanders.
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Pieter
>
>
>     On 05/09/2013 03:52 PM, Marc Portier wrote:
>
>         no doubth, undoubtedly, for sure, unquestionable, most certainly
>
>         I'ld even welcome the possibility to get/put
>         resource-defintions in such format
>         (but being able to put in json in stead of the current
>         post-req-params would already be a big win)
>
>         -marc=
>
>
>         2013/5/9 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
>         <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>
>         <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
>         <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>>>
>
>
>             Hi all,
>
>             Would it be interesting to have our TDTInfo/Resources also
>             available in RDF mapped to the DCAT vocab?
>
>         http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
>
>             This is a very interesting use-case for example:
>
>         http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat-overview
>
>             Kind regards,
>
>             Pieter
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