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language:
- de
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- n<1K
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# Dataset Card for MDK_taxonomy

## Dataset Description / Summary

This dataset was created as part of the [Bertelsmann Foundation](https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/startseite)
[Musterdatenkatalog]("https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/unsere-projekte/smart-country/musterdatenkatalog") project. See the project on GitHub [here](https://github.com/bertelsmannstift/Musterdatenkatalog-V4).
The MDK provides an overview of Open Data in municipalities in Germany. 

This data contains the taxonomy created by and-effect as part of the project.
The taxonomy adheres to the SKOS standard and is available as RDF and JSON-LD. 

There are two levels to the taxonomy: 'Thema' (Topic, first level) and 'Bezeichnung' (Label, second level).
The taxonomy contains 25 elements on the first level and 241 elements on the second level.


### Languages

German, some information translated to English

## Dataset Structure

### Data Fields

Contains information for each concept such as 'skos:prefLabel' (in german and english), 'skos:definition' in german and optionally matches to other concepts.


## Dataset Creation

The RDF and JSON-LD file are created with the help of '2023-05-17_MDK_taxonomy_info.csv' which contains all the information about the taxonomy and its concepts.

## Additional Information


### Licensing Information
CC0

### Contributions

The taxonomy was based on previous work by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and together with and-effect revised.