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

John,

I was asking what's the use case for being able to distinguish “non-government” from “official” datasets.

What does “have official status” mean?

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

Having a few examples of what you consider “official” or “non-government” doesn't really help.

Best,
Richard



On 8 Sep 2011, at 17:53, John Erickson wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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