Socrata Metadata

The API provides access to metadata on its resources.

Dataset

Dataset metadata can be found at <host/api/views/<id>.json

Examples:

• San Francisco 311 Calls

• Calgary waste and recycle collection schedule

DCAT Dataset / Socrata Dataset Mappings

Topic	Properties
Identification	id, name, description (contains HTML), tableId, oid
Admin	attribution, grants (object), license, license.name, license.termsLink, licenseId, approvals (see object), owner (object), tableAuthor (object)
Classifiers	assetType (dataset is what we support), displayType (table), category, provenance (official), tags, viewType (tabular)
Metadata	The metadata property holds several properties of interests customFields (object), rdfSubject & rdfClass, availableDisplayTypes, renderTypeConfig
Statistics	averageRating, downloadCount, numberOfComments, totalTimesRated, viewCount
System	hideFromCatalog, hideFromDataJson, locale, locked, newBackend, publicationAppendEnabled, publicationGroup, publicationStage (published), rowClass, rowsUpdatedBy, flags
Time	createdAt, publicationDate, rowsUpdatedAt, viewLastModified
Variables	The columns property holds information of the variables. Each entry holds a cachedContent property with descriptive statistics, including frquencies for the top 10 most used values.