Re: Contribution to the consultation on data on the Web Best Practices

Sure, we can do that, Wendy.

Thanks very much for taking time and trouble to look at this so 
carefully. Much appreciated.

I'll append the sentence so that it says:

"In the context of the Web, using unambiguous, Web-based identifiers 
(URIs) for standardized vocabulary resources is an efficient way to do 
this, noting that the same URI may have multilingual labels attached for 
greater cross-border interoperability. The European Union's multilingual 
thesaurus, <a href="http://eurovoc.europa.eu/">Eurovoc</a> provides a 
prime example."

Phil

On 05/12/2016 13:02, CARRARA, Wendy wrote:
> Dear Phil,
>
> Thank you for having taken the time to onboard the comments sent out. I appreciate the effort.
>
> In BP 15, perhaps within the editor's note, you could also add the link to Eurovoc as one of the examples of a multilingual thesaurus that has been used in the context of the European Data Portal.
>
> Thanks again and very much looking forward to the release of the new vocabulary.
>
> Best,
>
> Wendy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Archer [mailto:phila@w3.org]
> Sent: vendredi 25 novembre 2016 23:14
> To: CARRARA, Wendy; public-dwbp-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Contribution to the consultation on data on the Web Best Practices
>
> Dear Wendy,
>
> Thanks very much for these comments. Please see inline below for our responses. We'd be grateful if you could signal whether you are satisfied with our actions.
>
> On 17/11/2016 15:17, CARRARA, Wendy wrote:
>> Dear Phil, dear contributors to the data on the Web Best Practices.
>>
>> We are grateful to see that initiatives are taken to promote data on the web and more importantly to see promotion of best practices and standards. As more and more data is being made available on the web, it is in our view, paramount for organisations publishing data to recourse systematically to standards and best practices. Too many a times are we seeing data publishers simply park their data online and consider it done. Data is not published on the web for it to die there. Data is published so it is discoverable, re-usable and made available in a sustainable fashion.
>>
>> As we understand the vocation of the best practices put forward by W3C is international, we wish to nonetheless encourage W3C to further reference work done at the European level within i.a. section 8.9 Data Vocabularies. The work performed at the European level is largely open and can save many, both time and effort in moving forward in their data initiatives. The two points below are the most poignant we believe are the most valuable to cross-reference.
>>
>> -        Multilingualism: the web is an international space and the digital world knows different barriers then those imposed by sovereign states and their respective languages. More and more data portal owners and companies are investigating making their metadata and data available in different languages. The European Data Portal is one of the very first portals to translate metadata into 18 languages. This is a grassroot initiative which has had the benefit of shedding light on the needs and demand for further quality metadata on the one hand and multilingual metadata on the other. Core vocabularies, as underlined in the best practices already have a key role to play in ensuring common labels are applied. The multilingual thesaurus Eurovoc<http://eurovoc.europa.eu/>, does, at a European level, map of a number of key labels in 24 languages; languages that are moreover used beyond the strict borders of the European Union. This is a ressource than can be valuable globally. Moreover, in this field much work has been with respect to Controlled Vocabularies<http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/site/core_vocabularies/registry/adms-skos/> and Core Vocabularies<http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/site/core_vocabularies/registry/corevoc/>.
>
> The provision of multilingual labels for vocabularies is certainly a best practice, but we feel this is more related to the development of vocabularies than to publishing datasets. Nevertheless, please note that BP 13 https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/#LocaleParametersMetadata encourages the use of locale-neutral formats.
>
> But we have gone a little further. In the editor's draft of BP 15 (http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#ReuseVocabularies), I have appended the sentence " In the context of the Web, using unambiguous, Web-based identifiers (URIs) for standardized vocabulary resources is an efficient way to do this" with ", noting that the same URI may have multilingual labels attached for greater cross-border interoperability."
>
>
>>
>> -        The DCAT Application profile<http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/site/core_vocabularies/registry/dcat-ap/> for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe. Its basic use case is to enable a cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data sets among data portals. The European Data Portal has built a mapping between a number of catalogue solutions and the DCAT-AP for which the source code is open and available on GitLab<https://gitlab.com/groups/european-data-portal>. Moreover the DCAT-AP builds on an existing W3C standard, which would only give further credit to and underline the relevance of the work conducted by W3C in this field for quite some time now.
>
> I admit I thought we had already included a mention of DCAT-AP. I have added such a mention to BP 1 http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#ProvideMetadata where it now says
>
> "when defining machine-readable metadata, reusing existing standard terms and popular vocabularies are strongly recommended. For example, Dublin Core Metadata (DCMI) terms [DCTERMS] and Data Catalog Vocabulary [VOCAB-DCAT] can be used to provide descriptive metadata. Such vocabularies are designed to be very flexible so it is often helpful to use a specific profile of a vocabulary such as the European Commission's DCAT-AP"
>
>
>> Finally, there is an aspect that could be further explored which is around monitoring the re-use of data on the web. What is W3C's view on this topic?
> We have a whole new vocabulary for this https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-duv/ a final version of which will be published very shortly (with a very small delta from what's there now). I will be promoting this and our data quality vocabulary as DCAT extensions at the SDSVoc workshop next week
>
> Thanks again for your time and attention,
>
> Phil
>
>
>>
>> As a disclaimer, please note that this contribution does not represent an endorsement by the European Institutions, nor the European Data Portal.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Wendy
>>
>> Wendy Carrara
>>
>> Project Manager European Data Portal
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