Ruisdael Data Catalog - PoC - presentation 2024.09.06
https://ruisdael-catalog.citg.tudelft.nl/
Goals of Data Catalog
- index and describe every dataset produced within Ruisdael Observatory, independently from where it is stored or published
- discover where each dataset is published/stored (via Property:servedBy which points to Category:DataService instances)
- identify the contact-point of each dataset, special relevant for unpublished datasets (via Property:contactPoint which points to Category:Foaf:Person instances)
Wiki: collaborative editing content management system
suitable to build and maintain a data catalog
- anyone with an account can enter and edit content
- anyone with or without an account the view the content
- forms and templates guide users' edits
- semantic properties and categories help organize and describe content in machine-readable ways, allowing for structured queries and dynamic content aggregation
- edit-history function allows reverting pages' content to previous versions
The software: Mediawiki (MW)
- Open Source Software
- Powers all Wikipedia instances and Wikidata
- Markup language - easily converted to/from Markdown, HTML, ...
- API
- ecosystem of extensions: ie Page Forms VisualEditor SMW
The extension: Semantic Mediawiki (SMW)
- Semantic annotations via property::value pairs and classes (categories)
- User defined semantic properties, classes (categories), queries, controlled-vocabularies
- RDF export
Data Catalog structure (schema)
