The development of this project is suspended as I believe the e-Procurement ontology initiative is more promising.

Many thanks to those who contributed.

Open Contracting Data Standard - Linked Data Edition

This project aims at enabling any JSON data that complies with the OCDS JSON Schema to be published as Linked Data.

What??

The OCDS is a data model that aims at structuring and publishing contracting data (tenders, procurements, awards, transactions, etc.). It got international adoption and is one of the leading models in this domain.

Linked Data is a way of publishing data that relies on few principles:

• a resource is identified with an HTTP URI (not a plain string)
• dereferencing (HTTP GET) this URI returns data about the resource
• the description of the resource contains relations to other resources, also identified with URIs.

The result: a meshed network of resources than can easily be traversed by a machine. ) RDF is the framework that powers Linked Data.

An RDF/Linked Data variant of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) JSON Schema.

The first deliverable of this project is an ontology (~ schema) that translates the structure and semantics expressed in the OCDS JSON Schema into RDF.

• Turtle file with lots of comment in the header
• Visualization
• SPARQL endpoint

A JSON-LD context to turn any data compliant with OCDS JSON Schema into RDF

Soon (c)

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY license. That basically means you can do what you want with it, as long as you mention I'm the author of the original version, with a link to this page.

Credit can be given this way:

"Original version by Colin Maudry (http://colin.maudry.com), published at https://github.com/ColinMaudry/open-contracting-ld."