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

2013/3/4 Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>:
> I was going
> to give an example, but it appears that you can't download the SKOS
> XML without being a registered user (which I couldn't figure out how
> to do). Also, it looks like the licensing around Eurovoc doesn't
> appear to be particularly "open" [2].

For unknown reasons they have made it difficult to download the
machine readable version. You need a "free of charge licence
agreement" which is signed on paper, scanned and emailed to you if you
ask for a license. Not entirely sure about what they want to prevent
based on the license terms [1].

>
> It would be great to see some demonstrations of using a thesaurus like
> Eurovoc to provide cross-repository topical views of datasets. If
> anyone has seen anything like that (using Eurovoc or another
> thesaurus) I would greatly appreciate a pointer.
>

I have implemented DCAT over Atom on opengov.se and tried mapping some
keywords to Eurovoc (see an example at [2]). This feed is syndicated
to publicdata.eu (or was earlier at least).

I have a recent version of Eurovoc in SKOS [3] if you want to take a
look (but please read the text in [4] before clicking the link:-). If
I have understood correctly, each language version of a concept gets
its own URI. That should make it harder to do comparisons without
loading it all into a triple store.

Regards,

Peter



[1]: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s14/sh/ca6a6e9b-fb7c-4665-945c-ee94dd06d0a2/ca29d25aa0d422a2d5663e0edba458a7
[2]: http://www.opengov.se/data/115/rdf/
[3]: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2372866/eurovoc/eurovoc_skos.zip
[4]: Reproduced and adapted from the original language editions of the
EuroVoc Thesaurus (Edition 4.4) (C) The European Union, 2012.
Responsibility for the reproduction and adaptation lies entirely with
Peter Krantz.

Received on Monday, 4 March 2013 17:53:41 UTC