Purpose and usage

This XSLT is a proof of concept for the implementation of the specification concerning the geospatial profile of DCAT-AP (GeoDCAT-AP), available on Joinup, the collaboration platform of the EU ISA Programme:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/geodcat-ap

As such, this XSLT must be considered as unstable, and can be updated any time based on the revisions to the GeoDCAT-AP specifications and related work in the framework of INSPIRE and the EU ISA Programme.

Comments and inquiries should be sent via the issue tracker.

Usage for High-Value Datasets (HVDs)

Note that this XSLT, or its output, needs to be adjusted by each data publisher to produce HVD compliant metadata records. Especially the areas of Data Service identification, License information and Persistent Identifiers are not covered by this proof-of-concept. See DCAT-AP HVD for the HVD technical requirements.

How to use the XSLT

Instructions on how to use the XSLT are available in a separate page.

The XSLT in the master branch always corresponds to the latest version of GeoDCAT-AP, and it can be directly used via the following URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SEMICeu/iso-19139-to-dcat-ap/master/iso-19139-to-dcat-ap.xsl

Previous releases are available from the release page.

Testing the XSLT with the GeoDCAT-AP API

A proof-of-concept API has been developed to facilitate the testing of the XSLT on single metadata records or on top of a CSW endpoint.

A working demo of GeoDCAT-API is available at:

http://geodcat-ap.semic.eu/api/

The code of the API is available in a separate folder, along with the relevant documentation.

Content

• alignments/: Folder including alignments between the controlled vocabularies used in ISO 19115 / INSPIRE metadata and those used in DCAT-AP.
• api/: Proof-of-concept of the implementation of GeoDCAT-AP following the CSW interface.
• documentation/: Folder containing documentation on the XSLT:
  • HowTo.md: Describes how to use the XSLT.
  • HTTP-URIs.md: Provides the list of transformation rules currently implemented for identifying HTTP URIs embedded in ISO 19139 metadata records.
  • Mappings.md: Provides a summary of the mappings from ISO 19139 to GeoDCAT-AP.
• CHANGELOG.md: Log of changes made to the XSLT.
• iso-19139-to-dcat-ap.xsl: The code of the XSLT.
• LICENCE.md: The XSLT's licence.
• README.md: This document.

Credits

This work is supported by the EU Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations Programme (ISA) through Action 1.17: Re-usable INSPIRE Reference Platform (ARe3NA).