develop a landscape analysis on DCAT, DCAT-AP and friends

[andrecastro0o]

There is a EU recommendation for using DCAT-AP as a schema to describe the metadata for data repositories, as to provide interoperability (alignment) across data repositories. This might be a direction that DANS will itself take. Currently, it appears that the biggest push towards DCAT-AP is coming from the medical sciences community (Cees Hof is most informed about it)

In this landscape analysis it is important that we understand,

General questions

a) what we are dealing with?

b) what is the recommendation from EU. And is it a recommendation or mandate?

c) what and how are other data repositories using DCAT-AP

Elements (Building blocks)

• DCAT v3: Ontology
  • what is? ontology = definition of terms (classes and propretries)
  • development history (when was 1st created; goals; current version 3)
• DCAT-AP: Schema (how to use the ontology terms: mandatory, property ranges and domains)
  • what is DCAT-AP?
  • focus: around dataset class
  • how is the schema defined: in documentation and SHACL shapes
  • what is the recommendation?
  • who is using dcat-ap? how are they publishing the metadata in this format?
  • links:
    • https://semiceu.github.io/DCAT-AP/releases/3.0.0/
    • https://op.europa.eu/nl/web/eu-vocabularies/dcat-ap
    • https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/dcat-ap
    • https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/solution/dcat-application-profile-data-portals-europe/release/300
    • https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/solution/dcat-application-profile-data-portals-europe
• DCAT-AP NL: Dutch version of schema
  • reasoning behind the development DCAT-AP NL?
  • what are the additions introduced by DCAT-AP NL?
  • state of development?
  • who is using DCAT-AP NL ?
• DCAT Health (EU) : Health domain version of the schema
  • reasoning behind the development DCAT Health?
  • what are the additions introduced by DCAT Health?
  • state of development?
  • who is using DCAT Health?
  • what is the relation between DCAT Health and Health-RI metadata
  • links
    • https://healthdcat-ap.github.io/
    • https://www.health-ri.nl/nieuws/input-gevraagd-consultatie-nederlands-profiel-op-dcat-ap-30
    • https://ehds2pilot.eu/upcoming_results/extension-of-dcat-ap-healthdcat-ap/
• Health-RI
  • what is?

see Brainstorm on SuperCatalog and CKAN DCAT-ext and examples (ask @andrecastro0o more about this)

[andrecastro0o]

@aapolimeno a few more references that might help in understanding the current context and user requirements for DCAT-AP

• Support for Importing and Exporting DCAT Metadata IQSS/dataverse#1592 (DCAT in dataverse - look for Cees' comments)