Towards an open government data ecosystem in Europe using common standards Wendy Carrara, Makx Dekkers, Benjamin Dittwald, Simon Dutkowski, Yury Glikman, Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Brecht Wyns
.-- ISA2 Programme of the European Commission 2017
.-- 38 p.
This paper describes how such a common metadata language, DCAT-AP, was developed and implemented in national data portals and in the European Data Portal (EDP), how implementation challenges can be overcome and which benefits the DCAT-AP brings to data consumers, data providers, portal owners and society as a whole.