- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:59:12 +0100
- To: Alasdair J G Gray <A.Gray@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-gld-comments@w3.org
Alasdair, > Are there plans on combining the specifications? No, as they target different types of data. DCAT is for describing non-RDF datasets, VoID for RDF datasets. > Is there a best practice on how to use them together? DCAT/VoID alignment and best practices are certainly necessary and should/will be done (heads-up: we plan this for an upcoming release of VoID, cf. the long-standing issue on our tracker [1]). Cheers, Michael [1] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/detail?id=63 -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel.: +353 91 495730 WebID: http://sw-app.org/mic.xhtml#i On 24 Apr 2012, at 18:20, Alasdair J G Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I have been looking at DCAT and VoID for describing datasets. There seems to be a large amount of overlap between the two specifications. Are there plans on combining the specifications? Is there a best practice on how to use them together? > > Alasdair > > Dr Alasdair J G Gray > Research Associate > Alasdair.Gray@manchester.ac..uk > +44 161 275 0145 > > Room 1.17 > Kilburn Building > School of Computer Science > University of Manchester > Oxford Road > Manchester > M13 9PL, UK > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. >
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