auFedLegCat

Description: Australian Federal Legislation DCAT Dataset Entries

@author: ORCID 0009-0007-8434-7325

Goals

A DCAT catalog of Australian Legislation is an example of a utility that will assist with indexing references to standards and legislation that includes the ability to Profile parts of the catalog where a Profile is pointed to from a Varifiable Credential using a single URL.

The immediate goals for this example includes a) generation of datasets from Australian Legislation b) catalog datasets in a DCAT Catalog, b) validate dataset on publilshing c) eventually populate a provenance graph with changes resulting from the changed dataset (changed from manual publishing).

Generate DCAT Dataset

The Python script to create DCAT Datasets from Australian Legislation including:

• Metadata from an Act or Legislative Instrument from: https://www.legislation.gov.au/ details page

• Table of contents structure (as ToC metadata) for instances of ACTs or Legislative Instruments

• A SKOS Vocabulary that enables use as dcat:theme for DCAT dataset and related DCAT catalog that reflects the structure of legislation (derived from source)

The (Python) application that scrapes the Act or Legislative Instrument (legilsation) is: genericDatasetExample.py

Outputs from running the script are written to the following directory: output directory.

The application configuration file is: config.py

config.py provides the application the following name/value pair for configuring application target/output:

Name	Value Example	Description
legID	C1901A00006	The Identifier for the Legislative Instrument or ACT - target for mining (scraping).
tableOfContents	True	Mine the table of contents structure, (metadata) content, and hypterlinks. Omit this mining and output if set to False
pageMetadata	True	Mine the Dubline Core Terms metadata (as a CSV file) from  Legislative Instrument or ACT webpage. Omit this mining and output if set to False
detailedMetadata	True	Mine the metadata from the Legislative Instrument or ACT Details webpage. Omit this mining and output if set to False
outputFolder	<some local path to and output directory>	The path to the directory where output CSV files will be written.

Themes

The taxonomy file legilsationConcepts.ttl contains a SKOS concept scheme for the structures in Australian Legislative Instruments and Acts, as a SKOS taxonomy.

Script

The Python script file: genericDatasetExample.py writes a DCAT Dataset file for to output for referencing in a DCAT Catalog