buliding a dcat merger (semdev 2015)
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Building a DCAT MergerPieter Heyvaert
Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens & Rik Van de Walle
ELIS - Multimedia Lab
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Summary
ELIS - Multimedia Lab
What’s DCAT?
3 simple Linked Data problems
A patch: we’re launching DCAT Merger
Now What?
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Distributing catalogs over the Web
dcat:Catalog
dcat:Dataset
dcat:Distribution
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3 simple problemsELIS - Multimedia Lab
Different ways of adding additional information
ex1:Catalog a dcat:Catalog ; dcat:themeTaxonomy ex1:Tax ; dcat:dataset ex1:Dataset1 ; dct:creator [ foaf:name “Pieter Heyvaert” ].
ex1:Dataset1 a dcat:Dataset ; dcat:theme eurovoc:215481 .
ex2:Catalog a dcat:Catalog ; dcat:themeTaxonomy ex2:Tax ; dcat:dataset ex2:Dataset1 ; dct:creator [ schema:name “Pieter Heyvaert” ].
ex2:Dataset1 a dcat:Dataset ; dcat:theme dbpedia:Education .
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3 simple problemsELIS - Multimedia Lab
Different protocols to retrieve data2SPARQL1.1
RDFa
Custom Web API
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3 simple problemsELIS - Multimedia Lab
3 “Local Querying” is not Web Querying
What can we rely on in all castles?
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DCAT Merger (1)ELIS - Multimedia Lab
DCAT MergerNode.js package
GhentDCAT feed
LondonDCAT feed
PortorožDCAT feed
Merged & EnrichedDCAT feed
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Enriching FeedsELIS - Multimedia Lab
Subjects
KeywordsDCAT feed
DescriptionDCAT feed
Themes
NERNER
Spatial Coverage Customplugins
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AdvantagesELIS - Multimedia Lab
different way of adding additional information →
enriched feeds
different protocols → single feed
not possible to query all at the same time → single feed
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Now What? (1)ELIS - Multimedia Lab
Is there a better way to discover data catalogues?
Do we need to create a single point where all
feeds URIs are collected? ( distributed)
Is a hierarchy of DCAT Mergers a solution?
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Now What? (2)ELIS - Multimedia Lab
Can we consider republishing the (enhanced)
feeds as a good thing?
Do we need to define protocol guidelines for
the creation of data catalogues?