Consider adopting same formats as Project Open Data

[jpmckinney]

The White House's http://project-open-data.github.io/ fulfills many of the requirements described in this section:

By establishing technical guidelines for the government data released by departments, the CDO and DC’s will make the data more accessible and useful. Thus, the data should be released with metadata descriptions, the documentation for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and a description of licensing requirements. In addition, common core metadata shall, at a minimum, include fields for every dataset’s title, description, tags, last update, publisher, contact information, unique identifier, and public access level. Required metadata clarifications and updates shall include, but are not necessarily limited to the following for each metadata description: ...

The CDO will also make reasonable efforts to make the published data sets on DataSF available in human and machine-readable formats that are non-proprietary. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1) JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), 2) Comma-Separated Values (CSV), 3) Extensible Markup Language (XML), 4) Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), and 5) Plain text.

Project Open Data adopts the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), a widely-adopted international standard. It also reuses Dublin Core and other international standards.

[seamuskraft]

Thanks James!- Seamus

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, James McKinney notifications@github.com wrote:

The White House's http://project-open-data.github.io/ fulfills many of the requirements described in this section:

By establishing technical guidelines for the government data released by departments, the CDO and DC’s will make the data more accessible and useful. Thus, the data should be released with metadata descriptions, the documentation for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and a description of licensing requirements. In addition, common core metadata shall, at a minimum, include fields for every dataset’s title, description, tags, last update, publisher, contact information, unique identifier, and public access level. Required metadata clarifications and updates shall include, but are not necessarily limited to the following for each metadata description:

Project Open Data adopts the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), a widely-adopted international standard. It also reuses Dublin Core and other international standards.

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