- From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:28:53 +0100
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com>, public-gld-comments@w3.org
- CC: Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com>, Alasdair Gray <alasdair.gray@gmail.com>
What I really need is a superclass of DCAT for catalogues of things other than digital stuff; eg, research papers, research equipment etc. It's a real shame dcat is so specific as otherwise it's perfect. On 09/04/2014 17:22, Sandro Hawke wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- 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/
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