Informal description |
The HealthDCAT-AP is meant to facilitate metadata management and data interoperability under the EHDS framework, which regulates the secondary use of health data for research, policy-making, and other non-primary purposes. While it works in conjunction with the healthData@EU infrastructure, its design is primarily driven by the legal requirements of the EHDS Regulation concerning data cataloguing and interoperability. It retains the foundational structure and concepts of DCAT-AP, while incorporating additional classes and metadata elements to suit the unique needs of the health domain. The purpose of HealthDCAT-AP is to streamline data exchange within the healthData@EU infrastructure and ensure interoperability with other EU data spaces. |
Extensions and specific usage for description of health datasets |
During the Technical Working Group (TWG) sessions on the design of the HealthDCAT Application Profile, a number of requirements were identified and analysed for managing and sharing health datasets. New metadata properties were introduced to extend the DCAT-AP vocabulary, addressing those requirements. Some of the properties are to be defined in a new namespace for HealthDCAT-AP and other properties are reused from existing RDF vocabularies (e.g., DPV or DQV ). The suggested namespace prefix for HealthDCAT-AP is: 'healthdcatap'. The key elements of the vision outlined in this chapter offer compelling reasons for adopting the HealthDCAT-AP model, helping stakeholders understand the rationale behind extending DCAT-AP for health data and the resulting benefits. |