Re: Best Practice 4 (Document Metadata) - I agree to suppress it

Hi, Bernadette,

DBpedia documents a lot of things like applications, use cases, different
ways of accessing data using sparql, credits, etc. But it is a
documentation for humans.

What I think is that a vocabulary as DCAT should be the responsible of
pointing to these artifacts and the metadata related to them.

So when in BP1 we say to use DCAT, I think we are saying: "document what
metadata is being provided". If each of the artifacts has a vocabulary, so
the vocabulary documentation is responsible for documenting the metadata.

BP2 asserts to provide metadata for humans. I think that this includes the
documentation for humans. What is to provide metadata for humans if you
don't document it?

For me, BP4 can be derived from BP1 + BP2 + BP3.

Cheers,
Laufer



2015-01-20 11:16 GMT-02:00 Bernadette Farias Lóscio <bfl@cin.ufpe.br>:

> Hi Laufer,
>
> Thanks for your message! My comments are inline.
> >
> > The BP3
> >
> > "Use standard terms to describe metadata - Metadata should be provided
> using
> > standard vocabularies for greater interoperability and discoverability."
> >
> > already suggest that a user should use vocabularies.
>
> yes! I agree!
>
> >
> > BP1 (provide metadata) talks about the catalogs and I think that the
> > documentation about what metadata is provided should be in these
> catalogs.
>
> I think that the Provide Metadata BP is more general and later on it
> will be specialized by other BP.
>
> >
> > So, I think that BP1 and BP3 cover BP4. I do not know if the intention of
> > BP4 was to call attention to code lists, but I think that if this would
> be
> > necessary, this info can be in section 7.4.
>
> The Document metadata BP should be rewritten to become more general,
> i.e., not just vocabularies should be documented. In this case, what
> else should be documented when talking about metadata?
>
> cheers,
> Bernadette
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Laufer
> >
> > PS - again about sequential numbering as id - I do not like referring to
> BPs
> > in these way. If we suppress BP4, this won't be true because we will have
> > another BP4.
> >
> >
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> Bernadette Farias Lóscio
> Centro de Informática
> Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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