Re: [euopendata] Classification of open datasets...

Dear all,

And what about using Wikidata ? It might be a bit premature, but it's
definitively something worth considering at some point

Best regards,

Mohamed


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:07 PM, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote:

> In addition to the vocabs that have been mentioned here (esp. W3C DCAT
> and ADMS), a particularly interesting opportunity is Lexvo.org
> <http://www.lexvo.org/>, which tries to solve the multi-lingual
> problem using canonical terms in a particularly linked data-friendly
> way.
>
> >From their site: "Lexvo.org brings information about languages, words,
> characters, and other human language-related entities to the Linked
> Data Web and Semantic Web. The Linked Data Web <http://linkeddata.org>
> is a worldwide initiative to create a Web of Data that exposes the
> relationships between entities in our world. Lexvo.org adds a new
> perspective to this Web by exposing how everything in our world is
> connected in terms of language, e.g. by considering semantic
> relationships between multilingual labels (like book or New York).
> Lexvo not only defines global IDs (URIs) for language-related objects,
> but also ensures that these identifiers are dereferenceable and highly
> interconnected as well as externally linked to a variety of resources
> on the Web...."
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Bastiaan Deblieck
> <bastiaan.deblieck@tenforce.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please allow me to give the TenForce view on this situation. At TenForce
> we
> > are collaborating very closely with the EC and with other open data
> > initiatives throughout Europe. As a commercial company we follow research
> > activities and apply their results in our projects. With regards to this
> > discussion we are strong supporters of:
> > - EUROVOC: http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/
> > - ADMS:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_Description_Metadata_Schema_(ADMS)
> > - DCAT: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary
> >
> > We are convinced that these are excellent vocabularies to facilitate
> > multilingual data exchange and linking. We have been using and will be
> using
> > these "tools" in our projects for government and industry. From this
> > experience we know that EUROVOC is/will be key in anything the EC does in
> > the area of open data. The Open Data Portal of the EU uses DCAT/DCT and
> is
> > aligned in general terms to be compatible with ADMS, cf.
> > http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/linked-data
> >
> > Future activities in the area of linked open data on a European scale
> will
> > almost certainly involve these vocabularies. Contracts like this
> > http://epsiplatform.eu/content/ec-publishes-open-data-tender have been
> > attributed and are moving forward.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Bastiaan Deblieck
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Charles RUELLE <charles.ruelle@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This topic is very interesting.
> >> In France, for data.gouv.fr (the french open data portal) we currently
> use
> >> Eurovoc to describe our datasets.
> >> Do you know who is using Eurovoc ? What are others classifications that
> >> are used ?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Charles RUELLE
> >> @charlesruelle
> >> CTO of Etalab - French Prime Minister's task force for Open Government
> and
> >> Open Data
> >>
> >> Le 1 mars 2013 à 10:32, Peter Krantz <peter@peterkrantz.se> a écrit :
> >>
> >> > 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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