Short name
DCAT-AP
Creation organisms
Summary
In the context of semantic interoperability initiatives, the European Commission has defined an application profile of the DCAT vocabulary published by W3C for describing data catalogues with three key concepts: catalogue, dataset and distribution. DCAT-AP has two extensions: GeoDCAT-AP for describing geospatial datasets, dataset series and services; and StatDCAT-AP for describing statistical data sets.