Related to the data descriptor idea

[Andrea Splendiani]

Hi,

I have jsut stumbled on an initiative that is somehow related to the data descriptor catalogue. In the specifics, this is about issuing certificates for open data (related to the 5* thing).

https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate
http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/certificate.html

Is a bit far from our field, but maybe there is some idea we can take.


best,
Andrea

[M. Scott Marshall]

Interesting. Also reminds me of Vladimir's idea to create a sort of refined 5 star definition for interoperability, with different levels of compliance indicated by a sort of certificate.

Yes, they are considering some similar types of dataset description and, from "Known Issues", it seems to be an effort to produce a human-readable document:

• The certificate itself does not get populated with all the information that you enter within the form.
• There is no support for saving the certificate or anything else that would require a back-end server.
• Issues recorded in github

whereas we discussed producing machine-readable metadata. We discussed automatically validating and populating a given named graph with triples that answer similar questions but in a well-defined vocabulary (in OWL/RDF). So, we are starting with machine-readable and considering eventually adding human-readable interfaces as an extension, such as a form to ask the questions of the person publishing the data.

I suppose that our RDF will have enough in common with the Open Data Certificate that they will likely complement each other. So, our RDF vocabularies could be used to represent the information filled in their "form", which could become the GUI front end for the program that adds the triples. 

Cheers,

Scott

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[Andrea Splendiani]

Hi,

these are indeed the people behind the original 5star idea.

They are basically all sem web people, but they moved the focus on acceptance, rather than technology per se.

So I would suspect they already are more RDF-firendly than it looks like!

ciao,

Andrea

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