- From: Joshua Shinavier <josh@fortytwo.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 23:45:27 -0400
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
Hi everyone, I would like to draw your attention to a proposed schema.org extension for describing datasets, data catalogs, and data downloads: http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Datasets A demo page is available here: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/schemaorg_dataset_extension This extension has been motivated by the growing number of publicly-accessible datasets on the Web -- particularly open government datasets -- and the need to make them easier to discover and reuse. Currently, the extension is very lightweight, adding only three new types and five new properties. Together with existing schema.org vocabulary elements, it covers much of DCAT: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html Mappings into DCAT, as well as ADMS and VoID, can be seen at the bottom of the first page linked above. The Tetherless World Constellation plans to provide schema.org markup for all of the hundreds of thousands of datasets described in its International Open Government Dataset Catalog, and we are working on tools to make it straightforward for other data catalog publishers to do the same. Thanks in advance for any comments on the proposal. Best regards, Joshua Joshua Shinavier Tetherless World Constellation PhD student http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Joshua_Shinavier http://fortytwo.net +1 518 894 9855
Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:46:33 UTC