Other (relevant) W3C Vocabularies

CODATA/DDI Dagstuhl, 1 October 2018

The basis of (almost) everything

Government Linked Data Working Group (6/11 - 12/13)

• DCAT
• ADMS
• RDF Data Cube
• Organisation Ontology
• Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data

DCAT, DCAT-AP etc. (outside W3C)

• Formerly at DERI Galway
• Then European Commission (DG DIGIT) for the ISA Programme, Joinup etc.

ADMS (Asset Description Metadata Schema)

ADMS (Asset Description Metadata Schema)

• Status (draft, complete, deprecated etc.)
• adms:identifier as a class with properties of the identifier (skos:notation) and schemeAgency
• Attempted to handle versioning

RDF Data Cube

RDF Data Cube

• Based on SDMX which is used by European national statistcs agencies
• Creates a hypercube
• Holding some variables constant creates a slice through the data

Organisation Ontology

Organisation Ontology

• Designed primarily to model government departments
• Handles changes in name over time
• Handles changes in staff over time

CSV on the Web

Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group (1/14 - 1/17)

• Data on the Web Best Practices
• Data Quality Vocabulary
• Dataset Usage Vocabulary

Data Quality Vocabulary

Data Quality Vocabulary

• Does not define quality (it's in the eye of the beholder)
• Links to provenance
• Handles annotation
• Links to Data Cube
• Feedback & more

Dataset Usage Vocabulary

Dataset Usage Vocabulary

• About giving credit for the data used
• And describing what the data has been used for
• Handles annotation
• Feedback & more

Web Annotation Vocabulary

The Provenance Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning (specialises PROV-O)

Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Profile

The Dataset Exchange WG (4/17 - 6/19)

• DCAT Revised Edition
• Guidance on content negotiation by profile

W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web BP WG (1/15 - 4/18)

• Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
• Time Ontology in OWL
• Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
• Publishing and Using Earth Observation Data with the RDF Data Cube and the Discrete Global Grid System
• QB4ST: RDF Data Cube extensions for spatio-temporal components
• Overview of the CoverageJSON format

Time Ontology in OWL

It takes a village …

The Semantic Sensor Network Ontology, including SOSA

W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web BP WG (1/15 - 4/18)

• Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
• Publishing and Using Earth Observation Data with the RDF Data Cube and the Discrete Global Grid System
• QB4ST: RDF Data Cube extensions for spatio-temporal components
• Overview of the CoverageJSON format

Anything else?

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