Hi,

We (the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group) have put these vocabularies 
into Last Call, and would welcome feedback from you and your participants:

   • Organization Ontology (ORG)
   • Data Catalog (DCAT) vocabulary
   • Data Cube vocabulary

- ORG describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at 
supporting linked data publishing of organizational information across a number 
of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add 
classification of organizations and roles, as well as extensions to support 
neighbouring information such as organizational activities. [1]

- Data Catalog (DCAT) is an RDF vocabulary for expressing the contents of data 
catalogs, such as government data portals.   DCAT is for catalogs of all kinds 
of data (not just RDF data), but uses RDF to support easy aggregation of 
catalogs and construction of services which can search across many unrelated 
catalogs. [2]

- Data Cube is an RDF vocabulary for publishing multidimensional data, 
particularly statistical data.  It is compatible with the cube model that 
underlies SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange), widely-used ISO 
standard.  The Data Cube Vocabulary brings essential SDMX elements to RDF, 
providing a standard way for governments to publish statistical information as 
Linked Data. [3]


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by 8 April 2013. **


Many thanks for your help!

Cheers,

   Hadley

Hadley Beeman
Co-chair
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-vocab-org-20121023/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130312/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-data-cube-20130312/


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