RE: Agenda July 10, 2017 / Summary of Dataset related issues

Jaroslav,

It is really necessary to assume a particular purpose for a Dataset? It seems to me that requiring a Dataset "to serve a particular, even hypothetical information need and any kind of digital processing and not simply the task of distribution (software)" creates a restriction that might render existing implementation non-conformant. For example, I know if work where Software Distributions are modelled as dcat:Distributions under a Software Solution modelled as a dcat:Dataset.

As to the CKAN definition of Dataset, I think that every CKAN Dataset is a dcat:Dataset but the inverse would not necessarily be true. 

Makx.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jaroslav Pullmann [mailto:jaroslav.pullmann@fit.fraunhofer.de] 
Sent: 07 July 2017 11:19
To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: Agenda July 10, 2017 / Summary of Dataset related issues


   Dear all,

     my initial assumption DCAT is about registries of (structured) bulk data was in deed challenged
   by the mentioned use cases, since they consider any type of digital artifact including service endpoints.
   As already discussed in context of ID6, Web Services are a sample of dynamic Distribution which exposes
   a particular representation of the rather abstract Dataset (~ Information resource), so I'd exclude
   them from the Dataset layer.
   
   I'd intuitively expect the content of a Dataset to serve a particular, even hypothetical information
   need and any kind of digital processing and not simply the task of distribution (software).

   Here the working definition of a "dataset" in CKAN seems relevant [1]:
  
    "For CKAN purposes, data is published in units called datasets. A dataset is a parcel of data -
    for example, it could be the crime statistics for a region, the spending figures for a government
    department, or temperature readings from various weather stations."

   In next telcon I'll try to summarize the issues, but we may ask Andrea to comment on his detailed UC ID20.

   Best regards
  Jaroslav
    

  [1] http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/user-guide.html

    

On 07.07.2017 08:46, Makx Dekkers wrote:
> 
> Karen,
> 
> Not sure how to introduce the related use cases.
> 
> As far as I see, the issue seems to be that people may apply, may want to apply, and are applying, DCAT to various types of data collections.
> 
> Questions to consider could be:
> 
> 1. is there a need to be able to identify the type of data(set) that is being described?
> 2. if so, how can the type of data be identified -- i.e. in which property and using which (kinds of) controlled vocabularies?
> 
> Maybe Jaroslav has other ideas?
> 
> Makx.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
> Sent: 06 July 2017 18:24
> To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Agenda July 10, 2017
> 
> Thanks, Makx. It would be helpful if you or Jaroslav (or both!) could introduce this set of use cases that you've suggested, with what you see as a best approach.
> 
> kc
> 
> On 7/6/17 9:05 AM, Makx Dekkers wrote:
>> Karen, all,
>>
>> If I may, I would suggest not to start the discussion trying to define what a Dataset is. It seems to me that it would be more practical to look at what Simon mentions at the end of his problem statement "a way for a DCAT description to indicate the 'type' of dataset involved".
>>
>> Makx.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
>> Sent: 06 July 2017 17:28
>> To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
>> Subject: Agenda July 10, 2017
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2017.07.10
>>
>> This agenda follows Jaroslav's and Makx's suggestions by initiating the discussion of "what is a dataset?"
>>
>> kc
>> --
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>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Karen Coyle
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