- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:40:52 +0100
- To: public-egov-ig IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
The slides for the talk on data catalog interoperability are here: http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/03/dcat-for-egov-ig.pdf The vocabulary: http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat# Some miscellaneous information about it: http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat-overview A demo server that exposes RDF for four catalogues, with SPARQL interface: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/data.gov-cat/ http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/data.gov-cat/snorql/ Best, Richard On 26 Mar 2010, at 08:46, Jose Manuel Alonso wrote: > 5. Discussion on data catalogues [40min] > Special guest: Richard Cyganiak (DERI, NUI Galway) > > Talk title: > dcat: An RDF Schema vocabulary for interoperability of government > data catalogues > > Summary: > Opening public sector information has recently become a trend in > many countries around the world. Online government data catalogues > with national, regional or local scope act as one-stop data portals > providing description of available government datasets. These > catalogues though remain isolated. Potential benefits from > federating geographically overlapping or thematically complementary > catalogues are not realized. We propose an RDF Schema vocabulary as > an interchange format among data catalogues and as a way of bringing > them into the Web of Linked Data, where they can enjoy > interoperability among themselves and with other deployed datasets. > The vocabulary’s design was informed by a survey of seven data > catalogues from five different countries, and has been verified by > unifying four data catalogues to allow cross-catalogue queries and > browsing. > > > > Who can participate: > http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/participation > > How to participate: > http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Teleconferences > > > > -- > > Jose M. Alonso > Manager, eGovernment and Open Data, CTIC > co-Chair, eGovernment Interest Group, W3C > Senior Advisor, W3C Spain > Parque Científico-Tecnológico > C/ Ada Byron, 39 > 33203 - Gijón, Asturias, Spain > tel.: +34 984390616; +34 984291212; fax: +34 984390612 > email: josema.alonso@fundacionctic.org > twitter/identi.ca: @josemalonso > http://datos.fundacionctic.org > http://www.w3.org/eGov/ > Privacy Policy: http://www.fundacionctic.org/privacidad > >
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