- From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:24:41 +0100
- To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Cc: eGov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 18:59, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote: > > My personal opinion is that a key ingredient to making this happen is > to publish dataset availability and metadata using a syndicated feed > (Atom and/or RSS). I second that suggestion. By using e.g. Atom you also get a way of receiving updates about changed datasets in a machine readable way. We used Atom as the carrier for RDF data items in a project I was involved in (swedish national legal information system). There are many benefits and it is easy to get started as there are many tools to create and consume Atom feeds. If necessary you could extend Atom entries with information about the specific datasets, or you could just use Atom to carry the pointer to the rdf for a specific data set (described with whatever vocabularies necessary). Or use both approaches simultaneously. With regards to open data my experience is that you have some basic information you want to capture: Title (e.g. "Vehicle licence data") Summary Publisher Categories License Timestamps Link to about API page Link to actual data set (if available) Link to RDF data about dataset (if available) Most of these are already available in Atom (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt). You could add licensing info as well if there is a simple way of capturing that. Anyone who would like to contribute ideas for this in practice is welcome to join the opengov catalog project here: http://code.google.com/p/opengov-catalog/ Regards, Peter Krantz http://www.opengov.se/
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