- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:27:54 -0400
- To: public-gld-wg@w3.org
Hi Everyone! I don't know the correct W3C-blessed way to engage my fellow GLD WG members interested in vocab, so I'll just put this out there and provoke discussion... Questions have arisen as to how to indicate the "official" status of a catalog and/or individual dataset. For example, there are a large number of datasets that are the only source of data for a country but are "Non-government." No properties in DCAT [1] or our own prototype [2] express this adequately. This is important because consumers of catalog metadata must be able to determine whether a source has official status or not... Simply relying on dct:Publisher [3] is not good enough, since the consumer would still need to imply whether the Publisher was "official" or not. One way to handle it might be to have a term devoted to this, say dcat:official_status (range: literal) which would support values like "Non-government" Thoughts? John PS: Those of you who were at the Edinburgh meeting in May (e.g. Richard, Martin, etc) I believe this came up but I don't remember how we dealt with it... [1] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Vocabulary_Reference [2] http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/lab/project/logd_internaltional_ogd_catalog/metadata_design [3] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Vocabulary_Reference#Property:_publisher -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Dir, Web Science Ops, Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> olyerickson@gmail.com Twitter: @olyerickson Skype: @olyerickson
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