{"id":2717,"date":"2014-08-26T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:42:21","slug":"further-improvements-to-the-internet-data-measurement-catalog-datcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2014\/08\/26\/further-improvements-to-the-internet-data-measurement-catalog-datcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Improvements to the Internet Data Measurement Catalog (DatCat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet researchers and metadata enthusiasts,<\/p>\n<p>In response to feedback and guidance from contributors and users,\u00a0we continue to refine the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdc.datcat.org\/\">Internet Measurement Data Catalog\u00a0(DatCat)<\/a>. To encourage additional contributions, we have streamlined\u00a0the DatCat data model and minimized the number of required metadata fields. Specifically, we eliminated the Data and\u00a0Package objects and merged their most important information into relevant Collections. We also made dozens of other little improvements all over the code base. <\/p>\n<p>We invite folks to browse the catalog, <a href=\"https:\/\/imdc.datcat.org\/newuser\">create an account<\/a>, and\u00a0contribute some metadata to the catalog to help document the existence\u00a0and availability of Internet measurement data.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet researchers and metadata enthusiasts, In response to feedback and guidance from contributors and users,\u00a0we continue to refine the Internet Measurement Data Catalog\u00a0(DatCat). To encourage additional contributions, we have streamlined\u00a0the DatCat data model and minimized the number of required metadata fields. Specifically, we eliminated the Data and\u00a0Package objects and merged their most important information into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}