Re: [lod2] Fwd: Implementing DCAT in the Open Data Support project of the European Commission

FYI
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> From: <nikolaos.loutas@pwc.be <mailto:nikolaos.loutas@pwc.be>>
> Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:51 PM
> Subject: Implementing DCAT in the Open Data Support project of the 
> European Commission
> To: public-gld-comments@w3.org <mailto:public-gld-comments@w3.org>
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> Dear all,
>
> we are proud to announce that the Open Data Support project  is using 
> an application profile of DCAT (DCAT-AP) as the common standard for 
> homogenising description metadata of datasets published on government 
> data portals.
>
> */What is Open Data Support?/*
>
> Open Data Support is a 36 month project that PwC is running on behalf 
> of DG CONNECT. Open Data Support aims to improve the visibility and 
> facilitate the access to datasets published on local and national 
> government data portals in order to increase their reuse within and 
> across borders. It is a pan-European initiative targeting both those 
> data publishers that are well underway but also the ones that are just 
> starting.
> To find out more about the project, visit us at opendatasupport.eu 
> <http://opendatasupport.eu/>or take a look at the description of our 
> services at 
> www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/open-data-support-service-description 
> <http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/open-data-support-service-description> 
>
>
> */What is the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe 
> (DCAT-AP)?/*
>
> The DCAT-AP is a specification based on DCAT for describing public 
> sector datasets in Europe. It  was a common initiative of the ISA 
> Programme of the European Commission, the Publications Office and DG 
> CONNECT involving an international working group of experts, aiming.
>
> The DCAT-AP identifies the essential elements and attributes of DCAT 
> in the European context; and identifies the controlled vocabularies to 
> be used in the European context.
> More information about it can be found at: 
> _https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/description_
>
> */How is Open Data Support using DCAT(-AP)?/*
>
> In order to facilitate the access to datasets available on disparate 
> government data portals, Open Data Support is putting in place a 
> central metadata infrastructure (ODIP).
> The */metadata of datasets is harvested from government data portals/* 
> and, before stored on ODIP and published as Linked Data, it is 
> */homogenised using the DCAT-AP. /*
>
> The harmonisation is carried out by creating mappings both at the 
> schema and at the value level.
> The creation of the mappings is done using a set of software plugins 
> for ODIP (which is based on the Linked Open Data Management Suite 
> developed in the LOD2 project).
> The mappings are encoded in the form of SPARQL queries.
>
> Currently, the DCAT-AP description metadata of*/more than 31000 
> datasets from 8 national catalogs /*are available for reuse through 
> our public SPARQL endpoint at data.opendatasupport.eu 
> <http://data.opendatasupport.eu/>
>
> It is also worth mentioning that in the context of our training 
> services, delivered to the public administrations of all EU Member 
> States and to EU Institutions, Open Data Support is promoting the 
> DCAT-AP (and consequently DCAT) as */the standard/* for describing 
> datasets and catalogs in Europe.
> Our training curriculum is available at training.opendatasupport.eu 
> <http://training.opendatasupport.eu/>
>
> Should you be interested in finding out more about our work, please do 
> not hesitate to contact us.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nikos
>
> *Nikolaos Loutas*
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