UpdateCKANMetadata

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Functionality

UpdateCKANMetadata, is a processor designed to add additional metadata to an incoming flowfile or NGSI-LD event. This processor was designed to include all the metadata fields needed for complying with DCAT-AP v2.0.1 This processor is intended to be used joined with the NGSIToCKAN processor for persist NGSI-LD-like context data events and DCAT-AP metadata within a CKAN server. Usually, such a context data is notified by a Context Broker (Orion Context Broker,Orion-LD Context Broker,Scorpio Broker ) instance, but could be any other system speaking the NGSI language.

Independently of the data generator, NGSI-LD context data is always transformed into internal NGSI-LDEvent objects at Draco sources. In the end, the information within these events must be mapped into specific CKAN data and metadata structures.

Next sections will explain this in detail.

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Mapping NGSI-LD events to NGSI-LDEvent objects

Notified NGSI-LD events (containing context data) are transformed into NGSI-LDEvent objects (for each context element a NGSI-LDEvent is created; such an event is a mix of certain headers and a ContextElement object), independently of the NGSI-LD data generator or the final backend where it is persisted.

This is done at the Draco-NGSI HTTP listeners (in NiFi, processors) thanks to NGSIRestHandler. Once translated, the data (now, as NGSIEvent objects) is put into the internal channels for future consumption (see next section). Top

Mapping NGSI-LDEvents to DCAT-AP Metadata into CKAN data structures

CKAN organizes the data in organizations containing packages or datasets; each one of these packages/datasets contains several resources whose data is finally stored in a PostgreSQL database (CKAN Datastore) or plain files (CKAN Filestore). Such organization is exploited by NGSIToCKAN each time a NGSI-LDEvent is going to be persisted. Additionally, metadata could be included and some of this metadata could be used for building the organization, packages/datasets and resources names. Due to this processor only add the metadata to CKAN, it is needed the work with the NGSIToCKAN processor in order to perform all the operations in CKAN, the name conventions remains the same like is described in NGSIToCKAN processor.

DCAT-AP v2.0.1 specification defines some mandatory tags in metadata for complying with this specification, accordingly, the ´UpdateCKANMetadata´ processor defines a set of properties to be included in order to provide this metadata. This properties are described in the following tables:

DCAT-AP Metadata tags for Organizations

DCAT-AP Property NGSI UpdateCKANMetadata NGSIToCKAN CKAN DCAT-AP 2.0.1
- ID (autogenerated)
foaf:name service organizationName organizationName   service 
dct:type - organizationType organizationType extra:publisher_type (passed in package) Recommended property for Agent
#### DCAT-AP Metadata tags for Packages/Datasets
DCAT-AP Property NGSI UpdateCKANMetadata NGSIToCKAN CKAN DCAT-AP 2.0.1
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dct:identifier - - - ID (autogenerated) Optional property for Dataset
dcat:Dataset
dct:description - packageDescription packageDescription notes Mandatory property for Dataset
dct:title service packageName (expression language to dates) (packageName   service 
entity ID packageName (expression language to dates) (packageName   entity id) -> (if ld &&dataModel = db-by-entity-id)
dcat:contactPoint - contactPoint contactPoint + contactName + contactEmail extra:contact_uri Recommended property for Dataset
- contactName extra:contact_name
- contactEmail extra:contact_email
dcat:distribution - - - ID of distribution (resource) Recommended property for Dataset
dcat:keyword - keywords keywords tags Recommended property for Dataset
dct:publisher - - publisherURL (or autogenerated) ID of publisher (organization) Recommended property for Dataset
publisherURL
dct:spatial - spatialURI spatialURI extra:spatial_uri Recommended property for Dataset
- spatialCoverage spatialCoverage extra:spatial
- spatialCoverage spatialCoverage extra:spatial
dct:temporal - temporalStart temporalStart extra:temporal_start Recommended property for Dataset
- temporalEnd temporalEnd extra:temporal_end
dcat:theme - themes themes extra:theme Recommended property for Dataset
dcat:landingPage - landingPage landingPage URL Optional property for Dataset
dct:accessRights - datasetRights datasetRights extra:access_rights Optional property for Dataset
owl:versionInfo - version version extra:dcat_version Optional property for Dataset

DCAT-AP Metadata tags for Resources

DCAT-AP Property NGSI UpdateCKANMetadata NGSIToCKAN CKAN DCAT-AP 2.0.1
dcat:Distribution - - - resource:id (autogenerated)
dcat:accessURL - accessURL accessURL or autogenerate: datastore URL resource:access\_url Mandatory property for Distribution
dcatap:availability availability availability resource:availability (not exists) Recommended property for Distribution
dct:description - resourceDescription resourceDescription resource:description Recommended property for Distribution
dct:format - format format or JSON resource:format Recommended property for Distribution
dcat:mediaType - mimetype mimetype resource:mimetype
dct:license - license license resource:license Recommended property for Distribution
licenseType licenseType resource:license_type
dcat:byteSize - byteSize byteSize resource:size Optional property for Distribution
dcat:downloadURL - downloadURL downloadURL resource:download\_url Optional property for Distribution
dct:rights - resourceRights resourceRights `resource:rights Optional property for Distribution
dct:title entity ID, entity ID + entity type resourceName (expression language for dates) (resourceName or entity ID) -> (if ld && dataModel = db-by-entity-id) , (resourceName or entity ID + entity type) -> (if ld && dataModel = db-by-entity) resource:name Optional property for Distribution

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Administration guide

Configuration

NGSIToCKAN is configured through the following parameters:

Name Allowable Values Description
Organization name Organization name. Example: exampleorg
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Organization type Organization name. Example: http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/Academia-ScientificOrganisation Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Package description Package description. Example: Description example of dataset test
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Package name Organization name. Example: exampledataset
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Contact point uri Contact point. Example: http://example.com/ContactUri Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Contact name Contact name. Example: MaintainerName ExampleSurname
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Contact email Contact email. Example: maintainer@email.com
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Keywords A comma delimited list of keywords. Example: newTag1,newTag2
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Publisher URL The publisher URL, it is recommended to use the controlled vocabulary proposed by the DCAT-AP http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/corporate-body. Example:http://example.com/publisher Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Spatial URI The spatial URI coverage, it is recommended to use the controlled vocabularies https://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/ESP, http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country, http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/place/ Example: https://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/ESP Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Spatial coverage The spatial coverage. It could be a Point or a set of Points (a POLIGON). If it is a Point the coordinaes sepparated by comma inside brackets. If it is a set of Points (polygon) the points separated by comma inside two blocks of brackets Example1: [175.0, 17.5]Example2: [[[175.0, 17.5], [-65.5, 17.5], [-80.5, 10.5]]]
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Temporal start Temporal coverage start in format yyyy-MM-dd-THH:mm:ss.SSSZ Example: 2021-05-25T15:01:07.173
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Temporal end Temporal coverage end in format yyyy-MM-dd-THH:mm:ss.SSSZ Example: 2021-05-25T15:01:07.173
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Themes A comma delimited list of themes. It is recommended to select them from the controlled vocabulary http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme. Example:http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/ECON, http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/EDUC Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Version Version. Example: 2.0
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Landing page Landing page of the packageExample: http://example.com/landing\_page Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Visibility public, private dataset visibility public or private
Access URL The access URL, Example: http://example.com/access\_url Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Availability http://data.europa.eu/r5r/availability/available, http://data.europa.eu/r5r/availability/experimental, http://data.europa.eu/r5r/availability/stable, http://data.europa.eu/r5r/availability/temporary Package availability, it is recommended to use the controlled vocabulary proposed by the DCAT-AP https://www.dcat-ap.de/def/plannedAvailability/1_0. Example: http://dcat-ap.de/def/plannedAvailability/stable
Description of the resource Description of the resource. Example: Example description of example resource
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
File format JSON, HTMl, JPEG, GeoJSON, etc. See processors usage guide to more details Resource format. Example: JSON
Mimetype application/atom+xml, application/geo+json, application/gzip, application/json, application/msword etc. See processors usage guide to more details Resource media type. Example: application/json
Resource license Resource license, it is recommended to use one from Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, and inparticular the CC Zero Public Domain Dedication http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Example: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Resource license type It is recommended to use a license type from the controlled vocabulary proposed by the DCAT-AP http://purl.org/adms/licencetype/. Example: http://purl.org/adms/licencetype/PublicDomain Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Download URL The download URL. Example: http://example.com/download\_url Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
File size in bytes Number of bytes that occupies a file Example: 200000000
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)
Resource name Resource nameExample: resourceName
Supports Expression Language: true (will be evaluated using flow file attributes and variable registry)

A configuration example could be: UpdateCKANMetadata configuration example 1 UpdateCKANMetadata configuration example 2 UpdateCKANMetadata configuration example 3

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Programmers guide

UpdateCKANMetadata class

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