DCAT For a Long Term Global Future

Workshop „Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)“

30 November - 1 December 2016

Amsterdam

Position Paper by Andreas Kuckartz

• The need for DCAT-AP and diverse national sub-profiles can be reduced by improving DCAT itself

• National profiles reinvent wheels

• Best features of DCAT-AP and subprofiles should be added to DCAT

• => One common standard which is usable worldwide

• „Metadata“ is not only meta but also data => can and should be used to promote Linked Data

• Draft of German „Open Government Data Standard 2.0“ (OGD 2.0) is not based on DCAT, many critical comments in public consultation (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/ogd2_0/issue/all)

• Threat of OGD 2.0 becoming legally binding national standard

• Author submitted ongoing Freedom of Information Act request regarding OGD 2.0

• RDF and vocabularies are important, serialisation is not decisive

• Digital preservation requirements need to be considered: Can DCAT data from today be easily read in 50 years?

• Inprecision of vocabulary definitions and resulting semantic drift are problems

• Many vocabularies can not be dereferenced – what can be done to mitigate this?