W3C Interpretations

datasets

Can track other machine readable APIs or wrap flat urls into a DCAT compatible system.

Note: dataset in the client wireframes is CatalogRecord in the backend.

Internal models are templated after https://github.com/compilerla/los-angeles-data-sources

• Exports a searchable index for use with django-haystack.
• Index can be filtered geo-spatially or structured using SKOS (see DCAT theme category field)
• Can sync against various backends (Socrata, ArcGIS) to populate meta data fields
• Tracks column definitions
• Support RDF DCAT serialization
• Additional fields for user submissions, allow for crowd-sourcing

Informal Data Model Specification: https://github.com/compilerla/los-angeles-data-sources Referenced spreadsheet for modeling: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNtA4GbBwky8PPdNUvmXXZCI1GLtH5cGF-Q0FqD90w0/edit#gid=612549376

ALSO see: * https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/ * https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/

focus

Represents a limited W3C Simple Knowledge Organization System

https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/

• ConceptModel is a SKOS concept with defined labels.
• FeaturedInterest is a page calling attention to a concept(s)
• Concepts may be ordered in a tree view (django-mptt).
• other models in the site may be associated to concepts for enhanced searching
• Support RDF SKOS serialization
• Imports SKOS & OWL
• Search engine may span special concept relationships to expand searches