The tender specifications require putting in place extract-transform-load (ETL) processes that guarantee that all metadata content in the portal infrastructure comply with the specifications of the DCAT application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) developed within the context of the Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations (ISA) programme. These processes make sure that the metadata harvested from (open) data portals is converted to the uniform metadata schema used by the portal infrastructure.
The DCAT Application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe. Its basic use case is to enable cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data sets among data portals.
The DCAT-AP is already used in the Open Data Support (ODS) project initiated by the European Commission with the purpose of aggregating description metadata from data portals in Europa. In the ODS project more than 60,000 harmonised metadata descriptions from 13 data catalogues are harvested into the ODIP metadata repository. These harmonised descriptions are to be published on the pan-European Open Data Portal.
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