Technology
DCAT, DCAT-AP
DCAT (Data Catalogue Vocabulary) is a standard developed by the W3C organization for describing datasets in data catalogs.
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Data glossaryControlled Vocabulary
Controlled Vocabulary
Knowledge organization
Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for retrieval. They are carefully selected lists of words and phrases used to tag units of information.
They are used in for example taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems.
In practice
In library and information science, a controlled vocabulary is a carefully selected list of words and phrases, which are used to tag units of information (document or work) so that they may be more easily retrieved by a search.
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Technology
Identifier
The name of an object or concept in a database. An identifier may be the name of a variable, a unique ID, or a web address (URL).
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Open data
Linked Open Data
Linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries.
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