# The data catalog vocabulary
DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.

## DBpedia Archivo Ontology Snapshot

| Attribute |  Value |
| - | - |
| Ontology URI | <http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat>
| Archivo Ontology Factsheet| [Link](http://archivo.dbpedia.org/info?o=http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat)
| Snapshot File URL | <https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat>
| Snapshot OWL Version IRI | <http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat3>
| Snapshot Time | 2024-11-03 08:31:56

The [DBpedia Archivo Databus agent](https://databus.dbpedia.org/ontologies) generates only basic, static documentation for the archived snapshots of the ontologies.

## Ontology Metadata

DBpedia Archivo extracts metadata from the ontology for well known properties (e.g. dct:description). This subsection shows the content of every property individually using a separate heading.

### dct:description

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. By using DCAT to describe datasets in data catalogs, publishers increase discoverability and enable applications easily to consume metadata from multiple catalogs. It further enables decentralized publishing of catalogs and facilitates federated dataset search across sites. Aggregated DCAT metadata can serve as a manifest file to facilitate digital preservation. DCAT is defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/. Any variance between that normative document and this schema is an error in this schema.

### rdfs:comment

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. By using DCAT to describe datasets in data catalogs, publishers increase discoverability and enable applications easily to consume metadata from multiple catalogs. It further enables decentralized publishing of catalogs and facilitates federated dataset search across sites. Aggregated DCAT metadata can serve as a manifest file to facilitate digital preservation. DCAT is defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/. Any variance between that normative document and this schema is an error in this schema.

 + ## All DBpedia Archivo ontologies from w3.org domain

Each artifact in this group deals as the archive for snapshots of one ontology of the [DBpedia Archivo](https://databus.dbpedia.org/ontologies) -  A Web-Scale Interface for Ontology Archiving under Consumer-oriented Aspects. Find out more at [http://archivo.dbpedia.org](http://archivo.dbpedia.org). The description for the individual files in the artifact can be found [here](http://dev.dbpedia.org/DBpedia_Archvio#files).