DCAT

Description

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. This document defines the schema and provides examples for its use. By using DCAT to describe datasets in data catalogs, Publishers increase discoverability and enable easily applications to consume metadata from multiple catalogs. It further enables Decentralised publishing of catalogs and facilitates FEDERATED Dataset search across sites. DCAT metadata can serve as a manifest file to facilitate digital preservation.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
40 https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat.rdf
0 https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat.ttl
21 https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/

Tags

  • metadata
  • dcat
  • vocabulary
  • standard

Topics

  • GOVE

Categories