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 glossarySemantic Web
Semantic Web
Knowledge organizationTechnology
The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the W3C to make Internet data machine-readable.
The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data "machine-readable".
In practice
Berners-Lee originally expressed his vision of the Semantic Web in 1999 as follows:
"I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize."
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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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