Feedback on ORG and DataCube

Hi,

I'm writing to provide some feedback on the ORG and DataCube
vocabularies. My feedback doesn't include any substantive comments on
the design of either specification, but rather I wanted to note that
I've successfully provided both specifications in several projects.
Testing the vocabularies using real-world data helps identify any
short-falls in the design and I'm happy to say that I've not yet found
any.

* Firstly I applied ORG to describe the structure of the NHS, using
the data available from the NHS ODS service [1]. The ORG vocabulary
provided a good backbone for describing the hierarchical structure of
the organisation and the various sites associated with the health care
providers.

* Secondly, I've experimented with converting NHS performance
statistics into the DataCube vocabulary. The mapping from a tabular
open data release to the DataCube vocabulary was fairly natural. As
expected I only needed additional terms to describe dimensions,
attributes, etc.

* Finally I've also use the DataCube vocabulary as part of a piece of
work for the DOPA EU project [2] (I don't think this is public just
yet. Here I used DataCube to define how to surface Linked Data from a
statistical data platform.

In all cases both vocabularies provided a good backbone for capturing
the base data.

Cheers,

L.

[1]. http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/data/ods
[2]. http://www.dopa-project.eu/index.php

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Received on Friday, 5 April 2013 08:35:32 UTC