Re: Draft message text for asking for help reviewing our deliverables

Hi Hadley,

I've forwarded the message to the Dutch Linked Open Data Pilot project.

Met Vriendelijke Groet / With Kind Regards
Bart van Leeuwen
@semanticfire

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From:   Hadley Beeman <hadley@linkedgov.org>
To:     W3C public GLD WG WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>, 
Date:   21-03-2013 16:13
Subject:        Draft message text for asking for help reviewing our 
deliverables
Sent by:        Hadley Beeman - LinkedGov <linkedgov@gmail.com>



Hi all,

Below is the message I sent to one of the OKFN mailing lists.  Feel free 
to copy the content, edit it and/or steal it.

Overall, please let your contacts and colleagues know that we need their 
help in reviewing our deliverables!

Cheers,

   Hadley

Hadley Beeman
Co-chair
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group

Begin forwarded message:

From: Hadley Beeman <hadley@linkedgov.org>
Subject: Last call: ORG, DCAT and Data Cube ontologies - W3C Gov Linked 
Data WG
Date: 14 March 2013 15:07:57 GMT
To: ckan-discuss@lists.okfn.org
Cc: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@okfn.org>, GLD Chairs <
team-gld-chairs@w3.org>

Hi OKFN and CKAN list,

We (the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group) have just put these 
vocabularies into Last Call, and would welcome feedback from you and your 
participants:

• Organization Ontology (ORG)
• Data Catalog (DCAT) vocabulary
• Data Cube vocabulary

- ORG describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at 
supporting linked data publishing of organizational information across a 
number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to 
add classification of organizations and roles, as well as extensions to 
support neighbouring information such as organizational activities. [1]

- Data Catalog (DCAT) is an RDF vocabulary for expressing the contents of 
data catalogs, such as government data portals.   DCAT is for catalogs of 
all kinds of data (not just RDF data), but uses RDF to support easy 
aggregation of catalogs and construction of services which can search 
across many unrelated catalogs. [2]

- Data Cube is an RDF vocabulary for publishing multidimensional data, 
particularly statistical data.  It is compatible with the cube model that 
underlies SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange), widely-used ISO 
standard.  The Data Cube Vocabulary brings essential SDMX elements to RDF, 
providing a standard way for governments to publish statistical 
information as Linked Data. [3]


** Please send comments to the public mailing list 
public-gld-comments@w3.org by 8 April 2013. **


Many thanks for your help!

Cheers,

   Hadley

Hadley Beeman
Co-chair
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-vocab-org-20121023/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130312/

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-data-cube-20130312/