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Manage the quality of metadata
Implementers face some difficulties to manage appropriately the quality of the metadata. One difficulty concerns the conformance of the metadata to the DCAT-AP. For example, are all mandatory elements filled in or do the metadata values have the prescribed data type. Another difficulty concerns is…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 13/03/2017Updated Date: 13/03/2017
Attribution clauses
DcDCAT-AP provides a way for Distributions to specify the license, but many (most) open data licenses include an "attribution" clause (for instance, CC-BY and the Flemish license for free re-use). It is currently not possible to specify how attribution should be done. Some work has been done in this…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 22/12/2016Updated Date: 22/12/2016
Clarification of Agent roles
It is possible to add multiple publishers to the dcat:Dataset, but currently there is no way to model that some publisher is a distributor/original publisher/rights holder. This is for example required to comply with the Copyright Act (who is the right holder of the dataset). Possible solutions:…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 26/10/2016Updated Date: 26/10/2016
Contradiction dct:spatial and dct:Location
Description of the information contained in the two properties: dct:spatial “The MDR Named Authority Lists must be used for continents, countries and places that are in those lists; if a particular location is not in one of the mentioned Named Authority Lists, Geonames URIs must be used.”…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 26/10/2016Updated Date: 26/10/2016
Relantionship between dcat:accessURL and dcat:downloadURL
Description of the information contained in the two properties: dcat:accessURL (mandatory) “This property contains a URL that gives access to a Distribution of the Dataset. The resource at the access URL may contain information about how to get the Dataset.” dcat:downloadURL “This property…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 26/10/2016Updated Date: 26/10/2016
dataset with parts
We have created a use case and a proposal for data representation for datasets with parts. Find the result of it in the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VjGgtWSSTRsZMOMaokS-ip0epyj9yUr5DsOtPHdBiqE/edit?usp=sharing Jean on behalf of OP/OpenDataPortal Component Code…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 12/04/2016Updated Date: 12/04/2016
Source dataset
We have created a use case for relationships between an dataset and its source and gave an example of data representation. Find the result of the work in this google doc : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hqDaV3EW568nNxfVqfEIfcmCwYokgySjWLRiplHXkuI/edit?usp=sharing Jean on behalf of OP…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 12/04/2016Updated Date: 12/04/2016
Represent corrigenda of distribution files
We worked on a use case for the management of corrigenda with a proposal for data representation. Find the result of the work in the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wdfEqQqJ6gbs2p6W_OHTkrwLSZRdGQP5-XcjFYYCqbs/edit?usp=sharing Jean on behalf of OP/OpenDataPortal…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 12/04/2016Updated Date: 12/04/2016
Service-based data access
How to describe different information elements for searching for and binding to a service? In this case, it would be useful to provide the minimal information needed for connecting to a service. For furhter resolving this issue, please redirect to the new issue created after the DCAT-AP workshop…
DISCUSSIONCreated: 03/03/2016Updated Date: 03/03/2016
DI7: Build a DCAT-AP API
How to build a DCAT-AP API? RDF dump SPARQL endpoint CKAN API Other approaches Component Documentation Category improvement
DISCUSSIONCreated: 09/02/2016Updated Date: 09/02/2016
DI6: Detecting and handling duplicates
How to detect and handle duplicates E.g. when metadata is harvested from different portals (e.g. geoportal, open data portal)? Component Documentation Category improvement
DISCUSSIONCreated: 09/02/2016Updated Date: 09/02/2016
DI5: Data versioning
How to version data? Access and archiving Component Documentation Category improvement
DISCUSSIONCreated: 09/02/2016Updated Date: 09/02/2016