Makx Dekkers

Full RDF expression of an existing reference metadata standard

It might be more insightful to have a full RDF (based on a combination of statDCAT and other vocabularies/ontologies) expression of an existing reference metadata standard, i.e the SIMS. Here we have…

Typo DVAT

On page 61, "DVAT" should be "DCAT". Issue raised by Guillaume Duffes INSEE by e-mail on 28 October 2016 at http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/mailman/archives/stat_dcat_application_profi… Component…

Modelling SDMX Metadataflow in StatDCAT-AP

[Annex II]: The statDCAT-AP model maps indeed well to the SDMX Dataflow, and then is very useful to represent the SDMX data and structural metadata. However, the SDMX Metadatalow is not modelled in…

Property stat:statMeasure is confusing

[Section 6.7.3] The stat:statMeasure property is very confusing since it designates actually an unit of measurement. A qb:MeasureProperty gives the value for each information. It is conformant with…

Review definition of the numSeries property

[Section 6.2.4] The definition of the numSeries property should be reviewed in a more formal manner. If not mistaken, it is the Cartesian Product of the number of modalities of each dimension,…

SIMS as part of the StatDCAT vocabulary

[Section 6.2.2] : It would be indeed very interesting to have the SIMS as part of the statDCAT vocabulary. Several vocabularies of interest to the different SIMS sections can be already identified:…

stat:attribute and stat:dimension versus qb:attribute and qb:dimension

[Section 6.2.1] Why not directly use the properties qb:attribute, qb:dimension instead of creating the stat:attribute and stat:dimension properties which are identical. Issue raised by Guillaume…

Make the relationship between a dcat:Dataset and a qb:DataSet explicit

[Section 6.1] If possible, it would be good to make the relationship between a dcat:Dataset and a qb:DataSet explicit. The QB specification does not establish any formal relationship. On the contrary…

xsd:date and xsd:dateTime

Denmark has noticed that the proposed standard in several areas allow for a choice between xsd:date and xsd:dateTime . This is not seen as helpful. Denmark would prefer that the proposed standard…

Relationship between StatDCAT-AP and DDI

When I read there was a proposed standard for statistical metadata, the first questions that came to mind were what is the relationship between StatDCAT-AP and: SDMX The Data Cube Vocabulary…