Please publish a standard catalog metadata file

[croesus]

Hi Overture Maps team. Congratulations on publishing the first datasets!

I'm the Product Manager for Open Net Zero, a free, not-for-profit search engine for data that could accelerate the transition to net zero. Our platform is based on the CKAN data management software.

To make it easy for us (and any other data catalogs) to include your datasets in our index, please would you publish a catalog file alongside the datasets, describing what they are, the format they're in, what the license terms are etc. There are a number of standard formats for this file, but I would recommend DCAT and/or ISO 19115. Your collaborators at ESRI are well-placed to advise on the best approach for this.

In the meantime we will index the datasets individually, which is fine while there are only a small number.

Thanks for your work on this project.

[msbarry]

It would help if the index included a pointer to the URL of all of the files in the dataset, so you could discover them all over HTTP from a single entrypoint without needing to depend on the API of the particular object store that's being used.

[akuckartz]

DCAT please.
Maybe GeoDCAT-AP is relevant.