Fwd: [TC-Announce] OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

This group will need to tackle best practices in publishing a reusable
profile of DCAT, and supporting further profiling. There will need to be
sub profiles supporting spatio-temporal statistical data for example. The
working group will potentially be a joint W3C/OGC if the charter is
accepted.




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Subject: [TC-Announce] OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public
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*OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on
Draft Charter*

*The GeoDCAT SWG aims to separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT,
called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile,
GeoDCAT-AP.*

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1 February 2023: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of
forming a new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is
sought on its draft charter. *Comments are due by February 22, 2023.*

The purpose of the SWG is to revise, publish, and maintain GeoDCAT – a
spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation
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– and provide guidance about its use and further specialization. The larger
geospatial community will benefit from the standardization of descriptions
of geospatial data and access services in DCAT-based data catalogs.

DCAT, a vocabulary to describe datasets and services, is the primary means
to catalog datasets on the web. Some basic temporal and geographic
properties have been adopted within DCAT v2 and planned v3, however these
do not address the full range of requirements as identified in the 2019 OGC
GeoDCAT-AP Discussion paper
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GeoDCAT will provide a standardized vocabulary and encoding for spatial
dataset descriptions and service descriptions (metadata records), based on
general Web standards as described in the OGC/W3C Spatial Data on the Web
Best Practices
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GeoDCAT could in future be used as an encoding in catalog API standards,
such as OGC API Records and STAC.

GeoDCAT enables spatial data to abide by FAIR (Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable, and Reusable) Principles in a web-native environment, just
as so many other datasets do. GeoDCAT’s European profile (GeoDCAT-AP) is
used to make spatial datasets, dataset series, and services discoverable on
general data portals, thereby making geospatial information better findable
across borders and sectors. The EU references GeoDCAT-AP as a "Good
Practice"
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Portals that describe their data catalogs using either GeoDCAT or
GeoDCAT-AP will be interoperable with each other as well as with general
data catalogs that use DCAT.

*The draft charter for the GeoDCAT Standards Working Group is available for
review and comment on the OGC Portal
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Comments are due by February 22, 2023, and should be submitted via the
method outlined on the GeoDCAT SWG draft charter public comment request
page
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