Re: GeoDCAT-AP: Call for public review

Dear Andrea,

As I'mIt's interesting to see the efforts on data quality. I hope we can align the efforts in your domain with the work in the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices WG!
Unfortunately we didn't have time to ive into it a lot already. I've just put this as a work item in the next weeks.

In the meantime, I've got a couple of small comments about the current GeoDCAT-AP draft. In case they can be useful...

The first one relates to the questions I've asked about the DCAT-AP draft on license [1]. These notions are really hard to manipulate... for GeoDCAT-AP, I've noticed that dct:rights has been dropped in favor of using dct:license and dct:accessRights alone. Are you sure this is correct?
As a matter of fact annex II.15 has the example:
[
[] dcat:distribution [ a dcat:Distribution ;
      dct:license [ a dct:LicenseDocument ;
        rdfs:label "Reuse is authorised according to the European Commission
legal notice at http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm"@en ] ;
      dct:accessRights [ a dct:RightsStatement ;
        rdfs:label "no limitation"@en ] ] .
]
The object of dct:license here could rather be the object of a (more general) dct:rights statement. If I was to use dct:license with an instance of dct:LicenseDocument, then I'd have put
[
[] dcat:distribution [ a dcat:Distribution ;
      dct:license <http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm>  ;
 ]
]
which is closer to the GNU example in the DC guide cited in the annex [4].

Also, while reading the doc, I noticed that the GeoDCAT doc recommends two vocabularies for frequencies on p26, the DC one [2] and the MDR one [3], while they seem quite redundant, and DCAT-AP recommends only one (the latter). The document seem to mitigate this some pages later, but still, it could be confusing for readers.

Best regards,

Antoine

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dwbp-wg/2015Aug/0142.html
[2]  http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/frequency/
[3]http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/frequency/
[4] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Guide/Publishing_Metadata#dcterms:license

On 7/13/15 8:32 PM, Andrea Perego wrote:
> Dear DWBP WG,
>
> Please find below the call for public review of GeoDCAT-AP, an
> extension to DCAT-AP ("DCAT application profile for data portals in
> Europe") developed in the framework of the EU ISA Programme to enable
> the cross-domain sharing and exchange of geospatial metadata.
>
> Despite its focus is geospatial metadata, GeoDCAT-AP covers also
> elements, like data quality, having cross-domain relevance.
>
> For this reason, we would be very much appreciate any feedback you can
> provide on the issues in scope with the DWBP WG, as well as on the
> GeoDCAT-AP specification as a whole.
>
> Thanking you kindly in advance,
>
> Andrea, on behalf of the GeoDCAT-AP WG
>
>
>
> -----------
>
>
> CALL FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF GeoDCAT-AP
>
> Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
>
> You are kindly invited to review the working group draft of the
> GeoDCAT Application Profile, an extension of the DCAT application
> profile (DCAT-AP) for describing geospatial datasets, dataset series,
> and services.
>
> GeoDCAT-AP provides an RDF syntax binding for the union of metadata
> elements defined in the core profile of ISO 19115:2003 and those
> defined in the framework of the INSPIRE Directive.
>
> The GeoDCAT-AP specification can be downloaded from:
>
> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/139283#Distributions
>
> The specification is accompanied by an XSLT script, which allows the
> automated conversion of ISO 19139 metadata records into GeoDCAT-AP
> format
>
> https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/CITnet/stash/projects/ODCKAN/repos/iso-19139-to-dcat-ap/
>
> The public review period will last until 30 August 2015.
>
> Please submit your feedback by sending comments and suggestions to the
> GeoDCAT-AP mailing list:
> dcat_application_profile-geo@joinup.ec.europa.eu. The feedback
> received will be discussed by the GeoDCAT-AP Working Group in early
> September. Final publication of application profile is foreseen for
> October 2015.
>
> The full text of the call is available from Joinup:
>
> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/144506/
>
> The intended use case of GeoDCAT-AP is to make spatial datasets, data
> series, and services searchable on general data portals, thereby
> making geospatial information better searchable across borders and
> sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data
> sets among data portals using a common exchange format.
>
> GeoDCAT-AP has been developed in the context of Action 1.1 – Improving
> semantic interoperability in European eGovernment systems of the
> European Commission’s Interoperability Solutions for European Public
> Administrations (ISA) programme. The DCAT-AP is a joint initiative of
> four Directorates-General of the European Commission: the Joint
> Research Centre, DG DIGIT (ISA Programme), DG CONNECT and the
> Publications Office of the EU.
>
> Looking forward to receiving your feedback,
>
> The EU ISA Programme
>
>
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>
>
>

Received on Sunday, 30 August 2015 17:34:10 UTC