Re: "corrections" property for dataests.

An adopter could for example use (optional) elements from the DataCite
schema <http://bit.ly/DataCiteSchema> to reference a contributor and
contributorType.


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org> wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> I agree that it is helpful to have a contact associated with each dataset
> for corrections and queries. This is currently not part of DCAT as it didn't
> occur frequently in existing catalogues.
> It should be possible however for a profile to include extra properties. The
> conformance section states that a DCAT profile may include classes and
> properties for additional metadata fields not covered in DCAT (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/#conformance )
>
> Regards,
> Fadi
>
> On 5 Apr 2013, at 16:24, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi, sorry to leave it so close to the line on giving feedback.
>
> I work with datasets which are frequently changing and being updated, such
> as our staff directory, list of buildings etc.
>
> These have errors, and when it's open data people spot these errors and want
> them fixed.
>
> We have been working on the principle that it's good practice to include a
> contact for every dataset and a URL or email address for suggesting
> corrections. For this we use the terms:
>
> http://purl.org/openorg/contact
> http://purl.org/openorg/corrections
>
> I've just been told by the Europe dcat application profile group that they
> will only consider terms for the application profile which are considered
> "part of dcat" and so I would very strongly like to see these terms
> included, or equivalent terms added.
>
> Getting feedback from the consumers of your open data is really key in
> getting the best value out of it, and should be best practice in all
> non-static datasets.
>
> An example of this in practice is equipment.data.ac.uk -- each dataset from
> each university has an associated "corrections" email or URL so that when
> someone views a record and spots an error they can email the correct person
> at the right organisation rather than asking me (I am only an aggregator,
> and don't clean the data).
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>
> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>
> Would you recommend the software you use to another institution?
> http://uni-software.ideascale.com/
>
>
>



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