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

On 6 Sep 2011, at 21:27, John Erickson wrote:
> 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...

You use scare quotes around the words “official” and “non-government”.

Can you give a better definition of the distinction you're drawing?

What's the use case for this?

Best,
Richard

Received on Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:33:52 UTC