DCAT-AP is a DCAT profile for sharing information about Catalogues containing Datasets and Data Services descriptions in Europe, under maintenance by the SEMIC action, Interoperable Europe.
This Application Profile provides a minimal common basis within Europe to share Datasets and Data Services cross-border and cross-domain. [from homepage]
dcatapA provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier applicableLegislation is used to demonstrate the providers
available for DCAT AP. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| DCAT AP | dcatap |
http://data.europa.eu/r5r/applicableLegislation |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/dcatap:applicableLegislation |