Metadata Description for Market of Data and Linked Data

Abstract

Innovators Marketplace on Data Jackets (IMDJ) is a workshop featuring a serious game designed on the metaphor of a market where the scenarios of data use are created and evaluated through interdisciplinary communication among various stakeholders. A data jacket is a metadata description template for the sharing of metadata. Data jackets are uniquely designed to allow data owners to appeal to users without disclosing full data. In this paper we propose an idea to describe with RDF the relationship between data jackets, which are open metadata, and the corresponding original data, which may be closed data. Thus data jackets as open metadata can be connected to other open data within the network of Linked Open Data. In this way, the open metadata for closed data can be searched for and referred in the same manner as open data, which let the market notice the existence of the closed data and how these data can be connected with other data in the world, while the data contents can stay unshared to the public.