GeoNetwork DCAT2 codesprint April 2021

When & Where?

• 28 to 30 April
• The sprint will be remote

The sprint will kick off with an online session at wednesdag 28th of april from 9.00-10.00 CET. Please register via [email protected]. Preliminary agenda for the meeting:

• 9:00 Welcome and tour de table
• 9:10 Francois Prunayre: The DCAT2 plugin
• 9:20 Geraldine Nolf: Experiences from dcat plugin in Flanders
• 9:30 Paul van Genuchten: Experiences from Sweden and Netherlands
• 9:40 Sprint planning/ambition

Who?

• Francois Prunayre
• Jose Garcia
• Mathieu Chaussier
• Paul van Genuchten
• Jean Pommier
• ...

Sponsors

• Informatie Vlaanderen
• GeoCat.BV | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Netherlands
• SPW - Département Géomatique – Metawal

Agenda

The main goal is to build a common & generic DCAT2 plugin that can be used as a basis for extensions and custom profiles.

Main challenges:

• Agree on base XSD (and check capacity to extend it - eg. cardinality changes, new elements, ...?)
• Define which RDF encoding(s) to supports (eg. @rdf:resources or skos:Concept)
• Create simple editor configuration
• Support multilingual records
• Define usage of thesaurus and/or subtemplates (for keyword, license, formats, ... ?)
• Define I/O formats/mapping required

Development done in https://github.com/metadata101/dcat2 GeoNetwork branch to work with https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/5577 (and register dcat2 schema) Current task list: https://github.com/metadata101/dcat2/issues/1