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