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Metadata Unstructured Guidelines
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What is metadata?
Metadata is data about data.
Or metadata is data that
describes data.
Document This will deal with high level design only. A Technical design will be produced
Type Design separately.
The Parliamentary Document Management System (PDMS) is another
external publication platform, but with inbuilt search and security capability.
Platform PDMS It will not be included in the scope of this Guidelines.
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Search and Publishing Reqts – DCAT #1
Term Description
Title Title of dataset
Description Description of the dataset
Keyword Keywords, subjects, topics of dataset (select most frequent)
Theme The government jurisdiction business function for the dataset.
Language Default is English.
Licence License type
Rights Use the standard license text to determine the license type.
Data Status Is the data updated (active, yes) or static/persistent (inactive, no) .
Update Frequency How often is the dataset updated
Expose User Contact Should the user contact details be exposed as well as the organisation details.
Landing page URL with information on resource. Must be the UUID URL.
Publish date Original publish date of record
Update date Date modified
Identifier Use a system generated UUID value.
Metadata URI Automatically generated metadata URI.
Download URL URL with information on resource.
Security Licence
O Class Publication Metadata Type Platform
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TO BE
1. A common standard to avoid a metadata war, incorporating DCAT +
unique Agency metadata;
2. Stand up the CKAN Platform;
3. CKAN will use pointer addresses (FTP/HTTP/etc) back to the original file
4. Files will remain on platforms such as Trim, SharePoint, File system etc.
5. DCAT metadata files stored by CKAN;
6. Cross platform search now possible by CKAN;
7. Publication supported by CKAN;
8. Staff can harvest other open data by CKAN;
9. DCAT uses the W3C RDF format;
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