- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:10:42 +0100
- To: Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com>, "Thomas, George (OS/ASA/OCIO/OEA)" <George.Thomas1@hhs.gov>
- CC: Public GLD WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
Bernadette, George, Based on this thread, can I ask for an agenda slot in the coming weeks to discuss this, please. My reading is that the instincts of all of us - me included - is that RADion is something we should try and do without. However, it does seem to perform the role for which it was defined. I see two decision points for the WG: 1. Keep or kill off RADion - this thread seems to be tending towards keeping it although Chris suggests a different route to counteract Martin's keep it (data point: Martin is also familiar with the third vocab, ADMS.SW, that I play down here because it's not a GLD work item). 2. If keep: - publish schema/namespace doc (I'll update it inline with the clarifications I'm making to ADMS and the Legal Entity vocab); - introduce subclass relationships where relevant in DCAT which is otherwise unaffected, i.e. there would be no need to declare the RADion namespace when using DCAT. - That's IT. Nothing more to do - this doesn't become a new GLD deliverable. 3. If abolish: - answer Martin's issues; - update ADMS; - point to DCAT within ADMS to say that where a Semantic Asset can also be considered a dataset, it is good practice to include that in the data. Phil. On 27/09/2012 14:59, Dave Reynolds wrote: > On 27/09/12 14:43, Phil Archer wrote: >> >> >> On 27/09/2012 14:27, Dave Reynolds wrote: >> [..] >> >>> OK. What about the other way round. Are all datasets semantic assets? >>> >> >> Well, again, it depends on the dataset. I can think of datasets that >> could be considered as semantic assets such as NAPTAN and the Companies >> House data. These are used as reference points within other datasets. >> But Suffolk County Council spending data for 2012 Q1... ? > > Sure it is, if I'm using that to make a decision and want to refer to it > as an officially sanctioned asset I can use for that decision making. > > There's an underlying issue here that the notion of "semantic asset" is > not intrinsic to the thing. What makes something a semantic asset is > that some authority wants to declare it as such by putting it in an > approved repository. But one person's semantic asset is another persons > useless pile of insufficiently structured irrelevant data. So it's > really a relationship, not a class. > > That said, it sounds like there's enough differences between what dcat > wants to talk about and what adms wants to talk about that radion has a > role at least as an articulation of a mapping. > > Dave > > > -- Phil Archer W3C eGovernment http://www.w3.org/egov/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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