- From: Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:13:58 +0200
- To: Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com>
- CC: 'Laufer' <laufer@globo.com>, 'Bernadette Farias Loscio' <bfl@cin.ufpe.br>, 'Carlos Iglesias' <carlos.iglesias.moro@gmail.com>, 'DWBP Public List' <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Hi Makx, [Thanks for this clarification ] > Defining a small set of mandatory fields is not easy. In the DCAT-AP Working Group with participants representing around 30 data portals from many countries, regions and cities in Europe, a very minimal set (title, description, URL) was all everyone could agree on. Even the URL is conditional, to allow for the situation that a dataset distribution is not available, either because metadata is provided before publication of the data, or is maintained after decommissioning of the data. I also agree that we shoud specify at least title + description to be mandatory. > > There is of course a balance to be found between making too much mandatory, which means there will be little data that follow best practice, and making too little mandatory, in which case it's hard to build a useful service on top of the metadata. Yes, I fully agree here. > > In the DCAT-AP, there is, in addition to the 'mandatory' set, a set of 'recommended' fields for which publishers are strongly encouraged to provide information if at all possible. > > Maybe DWBP can do something similar? Hummm...Not sure how useful could be the "recommended" fields w.r.t the generic "optional field" . I mean, I assume *all* the the fields suggested are "recommended" ones...And include "mandatory" fields. Well, maybe I don't understand your point here. Ghislain -- Ghislain Atemezing EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department Campus SophiaTech 450, route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr & ghislain.atemezing@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8178 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~atemezin Google+:http://google.com/+GhislainATEMEZING Twitter:@gatemezing
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