Re: DCAT and the HCLS dataset profile

On April 9, 2014 11:44:58 AM EDT, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> Following up on this email. It would be nice to know that somebody is
>listening!
>

Yeah, not sure who might be interested in working on a "next version of DCAT"....   

     - Sandro

>m.
>
>Michel Dumontier
>Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
>University
>Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest
>Group
>http://dumontierlab.com
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Michel Dumontier <
>michel.dumontier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> In the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group,
>we
>> have been defining a specification to describe datasets in RDF so
>that they
>> can be discovered and selected using SPARQL. The specification is
>aimed
>> squarely at primary and secondary data producers and registries such
>as the
>> Data Hub, Bio2RDF, the RDF platform at EBI (European Bioinformatics
>> Institute) and many others. I've included the Abstract at the bottom
>of
>> this message.
>>
>> While we follow many of the recommendations specified in DCAT, we
>also
>> address the outstanding issues of datasets and their versions. We
>would
>> love to hear back from DCAT community regarding our treatment of
>versions,
>> and whether our work could form the basis for a next version of DCAT.
>We
>> welcome you to our teleconference (Monday 3PM UK time until Europe
>starts
>> Daylight Savings time on March 30, afterwards: 11AM ET / 4PM UK / 5PM
>CET).
>>
>> Please see
>>
>http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/joejimbo/HCLSDatasetDescriptions/blob/master/Overview.htmlfor
>the *current* state of the document and send us your thoughts. Could
>> this provide an RDF basis for dataset descriptions in the CKAN
>registry?
>> Are we missing anything?
>>
>> We have a work area at W3C that has an *older* version at the moment:
>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/notes/hcls-dataset/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michel Dumontier
>> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
>> University
>> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences
>Interest
>> Group
>> http://dumontierlab.com
>>
>>
>> Abstract
>> Access to consistent, high-quality metadata is critical to finding,
>> understanding, and reusing scientific data. This document describes a
>> consensus among participating stakeholders in health care and the
>life
>> sciences domain on the description of datasets using the Resource
>> Description Framework (RDF). This specification meets key functional
>> requirements, reuses existing vocabularies to that extent that it is
>> possible, and addresses elements of data description, versioning,
>> provenance, discovery, exchange, query, and retrieval.
>>
>>
>>
>>

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:22:45 UTC