Blog posts
Cleaning Up Metadata Messiness
Recently, I took some time to do a little analysis of our geospatial metadata in geo.data.gov. The results are extremely interesting, and they highlight a difficult challenge facing Data.gov as we work towards improving ways that our users search for and discover Federal geospatial datasets, which rely heavily on the quality of our metadata.
Linked Data Goes With DERI
Through my travels working on Linked Data projects in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and collaborating with other federal agencies pursuing Linked Data through Data.gov's semantic community, we frequently leverage the work of many talented international contributors to the Linked Data community. It turns out that many of them share something in common--often they're affiliated with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI).
Like our ongoing collaboration with RPI's Tetherless World Constellation, the Linked Data rock stars at DERI deserve some Data.gov love for the great work they do, and the many contributions they have and continue to make. Their work touches so many aspects of those in the US who, like me, are in the business of helping to realize Government Linked Data, in conjunction with voluntary consensus standards organizations like the W3C, which is of course central to this open data mission. This post in an overview of just some of the ways we appreciate DERI.
Revitalizing the Metadata Working Group
Saying “hello” in my first blog post for Data.gov. I’m David E. McClure, Jr., J.D. (not to be confused with GSA Associate Administrator, David L. McClure, Ph.D.) on detail to Data.gov from the NOAA OCIO and couldn’t be prouder to be a member of the Data.gov team and leading the newly revitalized metadata working group.
