Classification of open datasets... from Peter Krantz on 2013-03-01 (public-egov-ig@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Peter Krantz <peter@peterkrantz.se>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:32:19 +0100
To: euopendata@lists.okfn.org, public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAGtW=MsBFj=-nZoJ6nGCmGddKe4Czg3D3Z8aaV0NQ9vp7SYFfg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

Many countries are developing national portals with metadata about
open datasets from the public sector. To make datasets easier to find
and to lower the threshold for pan-european (or global) re-use it
would be great if classification of datasets followed a shared
taxonomy.

There are many candidates that could be used, e.g. Eurovoc [1], NACE
[2]. I would be grateful for any pointers if there is work going on to
harmonize classification of datasets on a global or European level.

Regards,

Peter Krantz
http://www.peterkrantz.com
@peterkz_swe

[1]: http://eurovoc.europa.eu/ - availabble as LOD
[2]: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/index/nace_all.html

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