Support for Importing and Exporting DCAT Metadata

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To support importing data from data.gov and exporting in the same format for data.gov to ingest our metadata.

Need to research this:

Here is the metadata schema used in the US Government, which is based on DCAT: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/

As you can see, there are a lot of optional fields, but only a few required ones (title, description, keywords, contact, URL). We recently moved to the 1.1. of the schema.

Also note that Data.gov ingest local, state, and university data

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization_type=Federal+Government

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization_type=University

Regardless of what we do, we should make sure Data.gov harvests/ingests us.

Some additional links:

https://project-open-data.cio.gov/

https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io

And here is how Data.gov does the harvesting:

http://www.data.gov/developers/harvesting