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What is DCAT

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Karen Majewicz edited this page Aug 17, 2020 · 2 revisions

DCAT stands for Data Catalog, which is a standard schema and vocabulary to organize datasets and data services. The metadata is stored in the JSON file, and could be accessed by appending /data.json to the end of the portal's URL.

ArcGIS Open Portals (HUB) http://gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/data.json

Socrata https://opendata.howardcountymd.gov/data.json

Processing the DCAT metadata

API Harvesting

What is DCAT

Variations on the DCAT schema

How the DCAT scripts work

Workflow

Step 1: Obtain basic metadata and turn it into a spreadsheet

Step 2: Normalize and augment records in the spreadsheet

Uploading metadata

Editing metadata

  1. Formatting the spreadsheet
  2. Completing metadata records
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