- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:16:32 -0400
- To: public-gld-wg@w3.org
It has been suggested to me that one way to handle this might be to have a (for example) DCAT property like RDF Property: dcat:official_status Range: rdfs:Resource Usage note: Values would be URIs representing official status levels that have meaning that can be referenced. A good example might be a "government" dataset that is maintained by a university. Right now we loosely refer to this as "Non-government" John On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:27 PM, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I don't know the correct W3C-blessed way to engage my fellow GLD WG > members interested in vocab, so I'll just put this out there and > provoke discussion... > > Questions have arisen as to how to indicate the "official" status of a > catalog and/or individual dataset. For example, there are a large > number of datasets that are the only source of data for a country but > are "Non-government." No properties in DCAT [1] or our own prototype > [2] express this adequately. This is important because consumers of > catalog metadata must be able to determine whether a source has > official status or not... > > Simply relying on dct:Publisher [3] is not good enough, since the > consumer would still need to imply whether the Publisher was > "official" or not. > > One way to handle it might be to have a term devoted to this, say > dcat:official_status (range: literal) which would support values like > "Non-government" > > Thoughts? > > John > PS: Those of you who were at the Edinburgh meeting in May (e.g. > Richard, Martin, etc) I believe this came up but I don't remember how > we dealt with it... > > [1] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Vocabulary_Reference > [2] http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/lab/project/logd_internaltional_ogd_catalog/metadata_design > [3] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Vocabulary_Reference#Property:_publisher > > -- > John S. Erickson, Ph.D. > Dir, Web Science Ops, Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) > <http://tw.rpi.edu> > olyerickson@gmail.com > Twitter: @olyerickson > Skype: @olyerickson > -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Dir, Web Science Ops, Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> olyerickson@gmail.com Twitter: @olyerickson Skype: @olyerickson
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