UK National Oceanography Centre

SURROUND successfully completed a relevant project in 2021 with the UK National Oceanography Centre. This significantly improved the human and machine-readable capabilities for the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) Vocabulary Server, and APIs for the National Environment Research Council (https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/). Some relevant Vocabulary requirements for DAWE and the BDR included:

• Content Negotiation for Media Types and Content Negotiation by Profile for different profiles which are necessary to deliver content according to BODC and other profiles
• reading from the current NVS SPARQL endpoint
• delivering multiple profiles and media types per resource
• preserving and proxying to the current SPARQL endpoint

The work packages for this project included:

• Formalisation of a BODC vocabulary publishing profile (enabling validation)
  • Analysis of current content
  • Profile Creation
    • Profile declaration e.g., https://linked.data.gov.au/def/ga-skos
    • Rules Specification - controlled natural language descriptions of requirements, e.g., the GA SKOS Profile’s Specification document.
    • Validator creation and testing as per the GA SKOS Profile’s validator.
  • Data Validation
    • Reporting results
  • Data Recommendations
  • Profile Publication
• Implementation of custom Vocabulary profiles
  • deployment of the new BODC Vocabulary Publication Profile
  • deployment of general profiles the above derives from: DCAT, DCAT Voc Profile, Voc Pub Profile, SKOS, SKOS CS, PAV & PROV
• Interoperability Test demonstrations
  • Definition of Use Cases
  • Establishment of tests
    • Including custom software (scripted clients)
  • Reporting of test results
  • Benchmark comparison of BODC with other organisations
• Installation and Configuration support
• Semantic Data publication Best Practice guidance