- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:53:19 -0400
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: public-gld-wg@w3.org
RE use cases, there are a number of different examples, and these will be expanding as aggregators come on line for fun and profit... * World Bank <http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog> which is a "non-government" entity (that spans countries) * OpenEI <http://en.openei.org/datasets> which is a "non-government" entity (that spans countries) * Linked Open Data Italia <http://www.linkedopendata.it/> which aggregates government and other data but is a "non-government" entity * Civic Apps <http://civicapps.org/datasets> which aggregates public data from many sources; many of the datasets are official but CA is a "non-government" entity * etc >From the metadata standpoint the questions are: * Does the catalog have official status? * Does the dataset have official status? * Does the publisher/aggregator have official status? BTW, entities like World Bank and OpenEI present challenges by not covering a specific country; to facilitate browsing we call these "Non-Government" but this is inaccurate and crude. John On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: > 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 -- 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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