Uses Cases and Requirements for the Open Data Directory - Draft Open for Comments

I guess people have seen Josema's announcement of the draft Uses Cases
and Requirements for the Open Data Directory that is open for comments
at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12d2PXB-XcZXIgpwOwUzVgbowacTxLZt7BG9L
IvQp8n4/ .

 

I was wondering if we as a group wanted to say something about the
specification in the section Content Metadata, which fortunately
references DCAT,  ADMS, Dublin Core, FOAF, eGov Core Vocs and others as
mainstream vocabularies to be reused.

 

My initial thought was that DCAT should be the perfect match for what
they are trying to achieve

 

There are some differences. The spec mentions data type "code", "text"
or "text string" for things that are supposed to be URI references in
DCAT. Examples: Language ("Language code as defined by BCP47"), Theme
and Themes ("Predefined texts from the set of Subjects and Topics"),
Type ("Predefined text from the set of types"), Geographic coverage
("Predefined texts from the set of Territories"). In other cases, the
specification gives a choice between a text string and a reference
(Creator, Publisher, License).

 

Did others have a look at this?

 

Makx.

 

 

 


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