Closed sofianef closed 8 months ago
The requirements for aligning DCAT-US-3 metadata schema with the ISO 19115 geospatial metadata standard and other key aspects have been effectively addressed by introducing additional legal metadata properties, as detailed in the Legal Metadata Usage Guideline
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Creator Name: Veteran Affairs Creator Contact Information: Lisa Mavrogianis, Open Data Lead, Lisa.Mavrogianis@va.gov Creator Affiliation: Office of Enterprise Integration, Data Governance, and Analytics
Requirement(s)
However, per DCAT-US-3 metadata should always address:
The following are some of the key requirements and related aspects that DCAT-US should fulfill:
Problem Statement
Target Audience / Stakeholders
Intended Uses / Use Cases
Use 1:
Use 2: Discoverable by international users
Existing Approaches - Optional
Concur with keeping this as an optional field
Additional context, comments, or links - Optional
For more information, see Geospatial Metadata — Federal Geographic Data Committee (fgdc.gov).
The term Veteran is defined in Title 38 U.S.C. It is understandable if a publisher reports about self-identified Veterans, but it needs to be clear if the data publisher supplied a definition for Veteran. Veteran is being used as an example of a common term without a readily available definition, but there are likely many of these terms found throughout the US Open Data Initiative.
Original Email Submission: DCAT-US-3-Requirements-Consolidated Responses (VA).docx