Why not use RDF and Semantic Web technology?

[Iwan Aucamp]

Hi

I made a wikidata property for Open Civic Data Division Identifiers (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8651) and I was looking at your site briefly.

I'm not clear on how exactly you specify data formats, your editor is offline and the data type pages (e.g. https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data/organization.html) seems to be down. Maybe the project is no longer active.

If you were using RDF and Semantic Web technology your data would be significantly more useful and have viability beyond the scope of your project, tooling and infrastructure as someone could just use SPARQL and off the shelf triple stores with it.

Popolo (https://www.popoloproject.com/) is already somewhat based on RDF (not entirely though it seems, but I may be wrong) and it seems your stuff is somewhat based off Popolo. There are also some more details here: https://www.w3.org/community/opengov/wiki/Main_Page and UK is also using RDF and Semantic Web Tech, see https://ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/ and https://api.parliament.uk/sparql

Maybe your system and data is already RDF based, but if it is then it surely is well hidden.

Regards

Iwan Aucamp

[Iwan Aucamp]

> data type pages (e.g. https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data/organization.html) seems to be down

I meant the data type pages do not seem to constitute a formal machine readable schema or data model (as would be the case for JSON schema or RDF OWL).