Re: DCAT and VoID

Alasdair,

> Are there plans on combining the specifications? 

No, as they target different types of data. DCAT is for describing non-RDF datasets, VoID for RDF datasets.

> Is there a best practice on how to use them together?

DCAT/VoID alignment and best practices are certainly necessary and should/will be done (heads-up: we plan this for an upcoming release of VoID, cf. the long-standing issue on our tracker [1]).


Cheers,
	   Michael

[1] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/detail?id=63

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On 24 Apr 2012, at 18:20, Alasdair J G Gray wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have been looking at DCAT and VoID for describing datasets. There seems to be a large amount of overlap between the two specifications. Are there plans on combining the specifications? Is there a best practice on how to use them together?
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> Alasdair
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