Releases for DCAT application profile implementation guidelines solution
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Which processes and tools could be used to manage the quality of metadata? 1.0
Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue National implementations of DCAT-AP may face difficulties to manage appropriately the quality of their metadata. The related issue is available here. Current situation Meta... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue Implementers do not have the possibility to provide information about the format of files (dcat:mediaType) within a package (e.g. ZIP file). The discussion on the issue is a... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue DCAT-AP includes a single property to refer to an Agent (person or organisation) related with a dataset: publisher. While in some national profiles, additional Agent roles are def... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue RDF requires every entity in the graph to have a URI in order to allow making assertions about the entity. As these URIs are created when the graph is created, the URIs are usua... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue URI needs to be available for the publisher to reference the organisation responsible for making the dataset available in the dataset description. The discussion on the issue is a... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue Publishers of data need to be able to handle the various situations in which URIs do not deliver metadata about the resource. The discussion on the issue is available here. ... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue The use of the MDR vs. Geonames vs. the Core Location Vocabulary URIs seems to be confusing. The discussion on the issue is available here. Current situation DCAT-AP versio... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue The modelling difference between publisher and contact point made by DCAT and DCAT-AP may be hard to understand for implementers. The previous discussions regarding this issue are... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 28/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue In some cases, accessURL might not be needed and the information in downloadURL and accessURL is duplicated. The fact that downloadURL is considered as a specific form of access... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 13/03/2017 Last update: 08/11/2017Issue Several initiatives faced similar issues while implementing DCAT-AP. As a consequence, many European, national or regional initiatives respond to this challenge by creating guidel... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to use the MDR data themes vocabulary? Issue National implementations of DCAT-AP may use national classifications for published datasets, partly because such national classificati... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 16/05/2018Overview of tools In order to facilitate the implementation of DCAT-AP, many implementers have developed tools such as validators, harvesters and exporters of DCAT-AP metadata. If you ar... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to model and express provenance? Issue The DCAT model treats the descriptions of datasets in a catalogue as entities that only exist in the context of the catalogue, and does not ... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to model Dataset series? Issue During the revision process of DCAT-AP in 2015, it was noted that the base specification of DCAT at W3C only considers relationships between a catal... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to refer to licence documents and licence URIs? Issue The indication of a licence is recommended for the Catalogue and for Distribution through the use of the dct:license. In addi... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to use identifiers for datasets and distributions? Issue In DCAT-AP, three identifiers can be associated with a Dataset: (1a) The URI of the description itself, i.e. the iden... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to extend DCAT-AP? Issue The DCAT-AP is cross-border and cross-domain. Applications within a national domain, or applications in a particular domain may have different requirement... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to describe contact information? Issue Implementers have noted that DCAT-AP lacks detail for the descriptive elements to be used with the class vcard:Kind, the range of dcat:conta... Read full release noteDistributions:
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Published on: 30/03/2016 Last update: 08/11/2017How to manage duplicates? Issue Duplicates can occur when an aggregator harvests descriptions of datasets from various sources. There could be two situations: 1. &nb... Read full release noteDistributions:
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