Re: DCAT and the HCLS dataset profile

Hi,
 Following up on this email. It would be nice to know that somebody is
listening!

m.

Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
University
Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group
http://dumontierlab.com


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Michel Dumontier <
michel.dumontier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> In the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, we
> have been defining a specification to describe datasets in RDF so that they
> can be discovered and selected using SPARQL. The specification is aimed
> squarely at primary and secondary data producers and registries such as the
> Data Hub, Bio2RDF, the RDF platform at EBI (European Bioinformatics
> Institute) and many others. I've included the Abstract at the bottom of
> this message.
>
> While we follow many of the recommendations specified in DCAT, we also
> address the outstanding issues of datasets and their versions. We would
> love to hear back from DCAT community regarding our treatment of versions,
> and whether our work could form the basis for a next version of DCAT. We
> welcome you to our teleconference (Monday 3PM UK time until Europe starts
> Daylight Savings time on March 30, afterwards: 11AM ET / 4PM UK / 5PM CET).
>
> Please see
> http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/joejimbo/HCLSDatasetDescriptions/blob/master/Overview.htmlfor the *current* state of the document and send us your thoughts. Could
> this provide an RDF basis for dataset descriptions in the CKAN registry?
> Are we missing anything?
>
> We have a work area at W3C that has an *older* version at the moment:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
>
> Regards,
>
> Michel Dumontier
> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
> University
> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest
> Group
> http://dumontierlab.com
>
>
> Abstract
> Access to consistent, high-quality metadata is critical to finding,
> understanding, and reusing scientific data. This document describes a
> consensus among participating stakeholders in health care and the life
> sciences domain on the description of datasets using the Resource
> Description Framework (RDF). This specification meets key functional
> requirements, reuses existing vocabularies to that extent that it is
> possible, and addresses elements of data description, versioning,
> provenance, discovery, exchange, query, and retrieval.
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