The concept

MD data(set) distrib wms distrib wfs distrib atom distrib file distrib nat or INS distrib wms distrib wfs distrib atom distrib file

Some repeated phrases “I don’t want to create more MD or more MD elements” “It is important INS MD are used for Open Data Portals” Interesting to have a well defined process to transform INS MD to (Geo)DCAT

Some conclusions Service MD are important In the future, there will be catalogue of APIs and services for Public Administrations. (DCAT Group) Services are resources by themselves. But it’s important to link services and datasets

Some conclusions The relationship between services and datasets is not 1:1. A service could operates on different datasets A dataset could be distributed by different services Should MIG say something about this issue?

Some ideas Standardized the way we describe the resource locator common vocabulary

Some ideas To study landing pages Information for each distribution Formats, protocols Licensing Size of the files Social networks