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+# Data Catalog Schema and API
+
+The beginnings of [Socrata](http://www.socrata)'s proposed modifications to the proposed [DCAT](http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/) and [Data Catalog Schema and Protocol](http://spec.datacatalogs.org/).
+
+Our proposal is heavily based on the work previously done by the W3C on the [DCAT](http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/) standard and CKAN's proposed modifications to that standard in the [Data Catalog Schema and Protocol](http://spec.datacatalogs.org/).
+
+## Files of note:
+
+- specification.mkd - The detailed spec (work currently in progress)
+- notes.mkd - Various notes from our learnings 
+- examples/ - Examples of catalog entries and listings in different formats 
+
+## Contributing
+
+If you'd like to contribute, please do! Send us a pull request and we'd be glad to consider any proposed modifications.
+
+## License
+
+Thia work is all licensed [Creative Commons By-Attribution 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

examples/earthquakes.json

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+{
+  "id": "earthquakes",
+  "uri": "http://data.usgs.gov/datasets/earthquakes",
+  "title": "USGS Earthquake Reports",
+  "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
+  "author": "Chris Metcalf",
+  "maintainer": "Will Pugh",
+  "tags": ["earthquake", "usgs", "shake and bake"],
+  "spatial": {
+    "type": "Polygon",
+    "coordinates": [
+      [ [100.0, 0.0], [101.0, 0.0], [101.0, 1.0], [100.0, 1.0], [100.0, 0.0] ]
+    ]
+  }, 
+  "temporal": "http://placetime.com/interval/gregorian/2012-06-15T19:31:00Z/P1Y",
+  "version": "23",
+  "metadata_modified": "2012-10-07T16:46:00+800",
+  "metadata_created": "2012-10-07T16:46:00+800",
+  "resources": [ {
+    "resource_type": "api",
+    "url" : "http://data.usgs.gov/resource/earthquakes",
+    "mimetype" : "application/json;application/rdf+xml;text/csv",
+    "apitype" : "rest/soda",
+    "last_modified" : "2012-10-07T16:46:00+800",
+    "name" : "SODA API for USGS Earthquakes Reports"
+  }, {
+    "resource_type": "file",
+    "url" : "http://data.usgs.gov/api/views/abcd-1234/rows.csv",
+    "mimetype" : "text/csv",
+    "last_modified" : "2012-10-07T16:46:00+800",
+    "name" : "CSV Export for USGS Earthquakes Reports",
+    "size" : "2048",
+    "hash" : "sha1:941e94956d5ff68d31381731ef6d4ba0fa23f3bd"
+  }, {
+    "resource_type": "file",
+    "url" : "http://data.usgs.gov/api/views/abcd-1234/rows.xlsx",
+    "mimetype" : "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet",
+    "last_modified" : "2012-10-07T16:46:00+800",
+    "name" : "CSV Export for USGS Earthquakes Reports",
+    "size" : "2048",
+    "hash" : "sha1:28298d9bd04d49cae0a499ef584f5b42b3dc6348"
+  } ]
+}

notes.mkd

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+# Possible modifications to different parts of the spec
+
+## Dataset
+
+- We "id" should be a URI to the /datasets/{id} resource catalog entry
+- Should we eliminate "name"? It seems redundant with "title"
+- Suggestion seemed to be use http://vocab.org/placetime/interval/gregorian/ for "temporal", so that's what we used
+- Definately agree with the use of the GeoJSON "geometry" object type
+
+## Resoruce
+