Research and/or define metadata standard for describing services (SaaS, OSS, public services)

[jgroenen]

There is no widely adopted, open metadata standard for describing digital services (SaaS, hosted open source, or freely accessible services), comparable to DCAT for datasets. This makes consistent cataloging and comparison difficult.

This issue tracks research into existing standards and the possible definition of a lightweight, DCAT-like metadata profile for services, suitable for catalogs such as opendiensten.nl.

Goal

• Assess existing standards (e.g. DCAT, Schema.org, ITSM service catalogs, TOSCA, OpenAPI, SPDX)

• Identify gaps

• Propose a minimal, reusable metadata model for describing services

[monty241]

Maybe something like PAD (Portable Application Description), an XML format popular at that time to exchange application information to download sites.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Application_Description?wprov=sfti1