Measuring the Installed Base: Nordic Health Dataset Catalogues Against HealthDCAT-AP Release 7

[2608.27720] Measuring the Installed Base: Nordic Health Dataset Catalogues Against HealthDCAT-AP Release 7 Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Computer Science > Digital Libraries arXiv:2608.27720 (cs) [Submitted on 27 Aug 2026] Title: Measuring the Installed Base: Nordic Health Dataset Catalogues Against HealthDCAT-AP Release 7 Authors: Fabio Rovai View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: The European Health Data Space requires member states to publish machine readable descriptions of the health datasets available for secondary use, and the European Commission publishes HealthDCAT-AP as the metadata profile those descriptions are meant to satisfy. The profile has been designed and validated against curated examples, never against the catalogues already live. We report that measurement for the Nordic region. On 25 August 2026 the 11 Nordic national catalogues harvested by the European data portal held 2,811 dataset descriptions carrying the EU health theme, and none satisfies all eight properties HealthDCAT-AP Release 7 makes mandatory on a dataset. Three of the eight are present on exactly zero records across five countries. Set beside the portal's own quality assessment, which validates DCAT-AP and never mentions the health profile, this is not a health extension skipped on top of sound generic practice: no Nordic catalogue reaches the assessment's top rating band, 5 of the 11 are reported at zero per cent DCAT-AP compliant, and the properties surviving in both layers are the ones a human types into a form, not the ones needing a value bound to a controlled vocabulary. Two further results follow. Finland contributes 2,259 descriptions to the European portal of which 1,146 carry a theme, and not one uses the EU theme authority vocabulary, so a European health filter returns no Finnish dataset at all. Separately, the authority namespace answers HTTP 200 with a well formed empty document for terms it never defined, letting 1,238 datasets across the wider portal carry theme IRIs that resolve to nothing while passing any status code check. We publish the vocabulary, the shapes and the harvesters, record every verdict as a dated observation rather than a property of the dataset, and report the five errors this discipline caught before publication. Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL) ; Computers and Society (cs.CY) Cite as: arXiv:2608.27720 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:2608.27720v1 [cs.DL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27720 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Fabio Rovai [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:23:18 UTC (110 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.DL < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.CY References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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