Research Data Alliance plenary meeting, Berlijn - Hoofdinhoud

The 11th RDA Plenary Meeting will take place from the 21st to the 23rd March 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Under the theme "From Data to Knowledge", the Plenary meeting welcomes the participation of all data scientists, experts and practitioners engaged in the advancement of data-driven science and economy.

The Research Data Alliance and the 2.5-day Plenary meeting provide the ideal, neutral and trustworthy forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges of a global data ecosystem of best practices, standards and interoperable data infrastructures fostering cross-disciplinary knowledge and innovation.

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Improving the FAIRness of scientific data with DCAT-AP

21/03, 16:30-18:00, Breakout 3 - WG/IG/BoF Working Meetings: Room A05 - Remote Access Available

DCAT-AP is an open specification developed by the European Commission (DG DIGIT, DG CNECT and the Publications Office of the EU) with broad participation from member states, academia and industry. It describes open data datasets and data portals and has become a de facto standard for describing Public Sector Information (PSI) as open government data. It is used by the European Data Portal which federates >70 national and regional portals from >30 countries and also natively from a growing number of countries for their national portals e.g. Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Spain, etc. Interestingly, there are already two extensions to the DCAT-AP: a) the GEO/DCAT-AP created with the coordination of the European Commission Joint Research Centre, describing in more detail geospatial data and b) STAT/DCAT-AP created with the coordination of Eurostat for the description of statistical datasets.

The session aims to raise the awareness of the RDA community around the DCAT-AP work, and discuss an effort to create a DCAT-AP metadata extension to describe research data with the goal to facilitate findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of this data. The goal is also to create bridges in the fragmented open data landscape with the use of universal open standards to facilitate cross-domain and cross-disciplinary search.

We have received confirmations from European Commission services, including DG DIGIT, DG CNECT and DG RTD, that will follow the session and actively participate in it with presentations/interventions.

Agenda:

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  Introduction to the session by the chairs - 5’

  Prof. Stefan Decker, RWTH Aachen and Director Fraunhofer/FIT

  Asst. Prof. Vassilios Peristeras, International Hellenic University

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  DCAT-AP: promoting interoperability of data catalogues in Europe - 15’

  Fidel Santiago, DG DIGIT, ISA unit

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  Harvesting open government data with DCAT-AP: The European Data Portal - 15’

  DG CNECT

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  Extending DCAT-AP for geospatial data and statistics - 10’

  JRC/INSPIRE team

  Eurostat (to be confirmed)

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  Metadata specifications for describing research data - 10’

  PWC, Belgium

  JRC/INSPIRE team

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  Discussion: investigation of interest and of community development around the DCAT-AP research extension - 30’

  All participants

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  Conclusions and next steps - 5’

  Chairs

Wednesday, 21 March, 2018 - Friday, 23 March, 2018 - 12:30 - 12:30

Location

Berlin, Germany

ISA² participation