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About DCAT-AP
The DCAT Application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe.
Its basic use case is to enable cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of datasets among data portals.
Many data portals in the EU have implemented DCAT-AP for describing data sets in a common way. Please refer to "Who is using the DCAT-AP?" for an overview of DCAT-AP implementers.
DCAT-AP Implementation Guidelines Working Group
In January 2016, a working group was set up with different DCAT-AP implementers. The implementers explained which problems they encountered when implementing DCAT-AP. After listing all identified issues in the Joinup issue tracker, all identified issues were voted by the working group members and the top 10 issues were further discussed in bilateral meetings with implementers of DCAT-AP.
The DCAT-AP Implementation Guidelines
Technical guidelines:
- How to use the MDR data themes vocabulary?
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How to model and express provenance?
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How to model Dataset series?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/dcat-ap-how-model-dataset-series
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How to refer to licence documents and licence URIs?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/dcat-ap-how-refer-licence-documents-and-licence-uris
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How to use identifiers for datasets and distributions?
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How to extend DCAT-AP?
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How to describe contact information?
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How to manage duplicates?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/dcat-ap-how-manage-duplicates
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How to use accessURL and downloadURL?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-use-accessurl-and-downloadurl
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How are publisher and contact point modelled?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-are-publisher-and-contact-point-modelled
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How should dct:spatial and dct:Location be used?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-should-dctspatial-and-dctlocation-be-used
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How could you make vocabularies de-referenceable?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-could-you-make-vocabularies-de-referenceable
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How should URI for organisations be implemented?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-should-uri-organisations-be-implemented
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How could an entity-ID service be provided?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-could-entity-id-service-be-provided
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How to express agent roles?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-express-agent-roles
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How to refer to media types within ZIP files?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/how-refer-media-types-within-zip-files
Organisational guidelines:
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Which processes and tools could be used to manage the quality of metadata?
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/which-processes-and-tools-could-be-used-manage-quality-metadata
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Overview of tools
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Guidelines repository
Refer to https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/release/guidelines-repository
