Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 2

World Wide Web Consortium. (2020). Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 2.

Type

Standard

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

2020

Link

https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/REC-vocab-dcat-2-20200204/

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

Domain-specific

• Access URL
  • Within open-data publishing, the W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary encodes this as the distinction between dcat:accessURL (where to reach the resource) and the dataset identifier (what the resource is): the two can vary independently

    SupportedVerified against a saved copy of the source

    “dcat:accessURL SHOULD be used for the URL of a service or location that can provide access to this distribution, typically through a Web form, query or API call.”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Distribution Form
  • The W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary encodes this through dcat:Distribution: a distribution is a typed catalog entry attached to a dataset, declaring its own media type, byte size, fetch URL, checksum, and license link

    Supported in partVerified against a saved copy of the source

    “A specific representation of a dataset. A dataset might be available in multiple serializations that may differ in various ways”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Spatial coverage
  • Open-data portals — DCAT-compliant catalogs (data.gov, the EU Open Data Portal) publishing dct:spatial on dataset records (optional in DCAT, required only where a profile mandates it), so consumers can detect region mismatches where a record declares them.

    Supported in partVerified against the source

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Temporal coverage
  • The structural commitment is to publish an explicit inclusion-exclusion rule on the time dimension, encoded canonically as DCAT's dct:temporal or Schema.org's temporalCoverage

    Supported in partVerified against the source

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

Verification

Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.

Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 4 of 4 citations: 1 supported, 3 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

See how references were verified.

Links previously used in the corpus

Before the registry existed this work was also linked 1 other way.

• https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-2/ ×2

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