Guidance on publishing application profiles of vocabularies

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A page for info on the AP guidance document

Application Profile definition

An Application Profile is a specification that re-uses terms from one or more base standards, adding more specificity by identifying mandatory, recommended and optional elements to be used for a particular application, as well as recommendations for controlled vocabularies to be used. Source: the DCAT-AP v1.1. document available from https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/distribution/dcat-ap-version-11

DCAT Application Profiles

List of existing DCAT Application Profiles

• DCAT-AP: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146653
• GeoDCAT-AP: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/139283
• StatDCAT-AP: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/stat_dcat_application_profile/asset_release/statdcat-ap-v100
• Belgium - Fedict, OpenKnowledgeBE - Web Address: http://dcat.be/
• Germany - Finanzbehörde - Geschäfts- und Koordinierungsstelle GovData - Web Address: http://dcat-ap.de/def/
• Ireland - Open Data Unit - Dept of Public Expenditure & Reform, Web Address: https://data.gov.ie/technical-framework
• Italy - AgID - Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale Web Address: https://linee-guida-cataloghi-dati-profilo-dcat-ap-it.readthedocs.io/it/latest/
• The Netherlands - Kennis- en Exploitatiecentrum Officiële Overheidspublicaties (KOOP) Web Address: http://dcat-nl.info/nl/latest/
• Norway - Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) Web Address: https://doc.difi.no/dcat-ap-no/
• Spain - APORTA INITIATIVE Web Address: http://datos.gob.es/es/documentacion/guia-de-aplicacion-de-la-norma-tecnica-de-interoperabilidad-de-reutilizacion-de
• Sweden - VINNOVA Web Address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17-vEfZXlu9kykcmjXZo1_Z8QKkr7-Prgwd6YUKLRrjk/edit (restricted access)
• Switzerland - Open Government Data Switzerland Web Address: https://handbook.opendata.swiss/en/library/ch-dcat-ap

Analysis of DCAT Application Profiles

See spreadsheet [[1]]

Reference documentation

For background information about APs in Dublin Core, see Karen's mail

• Heery, R. and Patel, M., 2000. Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas. Ariadne, 25. doi:10.1.1.462.1270
• Mikael Nilsson. Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles. 2008-03-31
• Mikael Nilsson, Thomas Baker, Pete Johnston. The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application Profiles. 2008-01-14
• Karen Coyle, Thomas Baker. Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles. 2009-05-18
• [VOCAB-DCAT], Section 3 Conformance. 2014-01-16
• DCMI Task Group on RDF Application Profiles. RDF Application Profiles/Requirements. 2015-08-11
• Karen Coyle. Application Profiles: An Overview. In: Developing Metadata Application Profiles, 2017 doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2221-8.ch001