Netherlands Overheid.nl Web Metadata Standard

[timgdavies]

Based on conversations with @rolfkleef at OGP I've added:

NL-OWMS to the codelist (visible more easily in AirTable here)

@rolfkleef Would you be able to check that I've described the service there right.

This has also raised two interesting issues around:

• Legal characters for identifiers (e.g. 's-Graveland as an identifier where it looks like the ' breaks even overheid.nl's own RDF and N3 downloads versions!)
• The guidance we should give when URIs are available.

I'll open separate issues for these.

[rolfkleef]

Looks good to me!

You might also want to check work by Open State Foundation on organisations keeping lists of (Dutch) gov and semi-gov id's: https://github.com/openstate/datasets/tree/master/osn

Lex Slaghuis mentioned mapping id's between lists by various authorities, as part of the Accountability Hack in September, https://github.com/openstate/datasets/blob/master/osn/master-view.csv

I've reported that URI problem to their contact address, let's see what can be done about that!

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Re: URIs

I'd be in favour of pushing towards a URI-compatible naming scheme... in IATI, there are various other codelists as well that contain a vocabulary identifier with a code within that vocabulary.

An "org id vocabulary"-ontology, where information about a particular registrar could be made available as properties in e.g. the joinedupdata.org store, seems useful.

[rolfkleef]

Just had a response about the URIs: known issue. They were inspired by DBPedia to use special characters, but this results in various problems, so they're working on a new URI system without special characters.

[timgdavies]

A codelist has been added https://github.com/OpenDataServices/org-ids/blob/master/codes/nl/nl-owms.json

I'll open a separate issue re: URL-compatible naming scheme