Re: Catralog vocab question: Indicating whether "government" dataset has "official" status

Hi Martin!

This makes sense. Extrapolating a bit, then assertions like yours
could be "defined" in terms of a dcat class (if one existed):

ctic:official a dcat:Status;
                  rdfs:label "CTIC's official dataset";
                  rdfs:comment "Type to mark official datasets from
fundación CTIC" .

foo:non_government a dcat:Status;
                  rdfs:label "A Non-government dataset from Foo";
                  rdfs:comment "Type to mark un-official govt datasets
from Univ. of Foo" .

Thus catalog providers could define their chose status level as a
subclass of a standard class...

(Thanks to Alvaro Graves for helping with this thinking...)

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar <mlvarez@w3.org> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> Our solution for this problem was specifying a type for each dataset instance, such as
>
> :dataset001 a dcat:Dataset;
>    dcterms:type ctic:official.
>
> Using a couple of defined resources:
> 'ctic:official' and 'ctic:non-official'. It was only used to define our catalog of OGD catalogs [1].
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
>
> --
> Martin Alvarez Espinar
> Fundación CTIC
>
> On 06/09/2011, at 21:28, 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
>>
>



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Dir, Web Science Ops, Tetherless World Constellation (RPI)
<http://tw.rpi.edu>
olyerickson@gmail.com
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