If it is used, (although rarely) and you are not sure if it is causing you any undue burden, why remove a metadata description for linked data recommended by the EU? Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali http://ainali.com 2017-09-27 12:04 GMT+02:00 Marius Hoch <marius.hoch(a)wikimedia.de>de>:

Marius Hoch asked last month: Well, it is poorly documented maybe this is a reason for its low use? It should be mentioned at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download I just extended the DCAT-AP item and did some digging into the DCAT-AP community: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28600460 DCAT-AP is an application profile (aka "best practice") of the W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary, so it's not only to make happy European data catalog registries. The main use case is going to be a search across multiple open data catalogs (similar to https://datahub.io/ / CKAN but only metadata) but by now it seems to be used more to submit data to local registries in more than 15 European countries (see this presentation from last yeat: https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sdsvoc/brecht). Anyway, it's a good idea to describe Wikidata dumps in machine readble form so why not stick with the current standard? How about adding the RDF to query.wikidata.org so we can get a current list? PREFIX dcat: <http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#> PREFIX dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> SELECT ?url ?date ?size WHERE { <https://www.wikidata.org/about#catalog> dcat:dataset ?dump . ?dump dcat:distribution [ dct:format "application/json" ; dcat:downloadURL ?url ; dcat:issued ?date ; dcat:byteSize ?bytes ] . } I created a Phabricator issue for this request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178978 Cheers, Jakob -- Jakob Voß &lt;jakob.voss(a)gbv.de&gt; Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de/