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 glossaryWikidata
Wikidata
Knowledge organizationOpen data
Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, acting as central storage for structured data.
It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, and anyone else can use. The content of Wikidata is available under a free licence, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open data sets on the linked data web.
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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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Data science
Metadata
Information about a dataset such as its title and description, method of collection, and contact information for the publisher.
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