Re: [dxwg] How to express available formats for a dcat:Dataservice (#1055)

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Unfortunately they arrive largely too late to be considered for the current release of DCAT. However, they should be added to the backlog for a future update. The plan is to maintain DCAT as an 'evergreen standard' so revisions should come reasonably frequently. Of course there is also nothing to stop you developing a DCAT extension for data-processing-services to test the waters. 

Meanwhile, some observations partly in response to [@smrgeoinfo comment](https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1055#issuecomment-528939244): since a data-processing-service will usually return a serialized dataset (i.e. a `dcat:Distribution`) then I think it usually is a kind of `dcat:DataService`. (I disagree with @smrgeoinfo here ;-) )

Nevertheless, describing the details of a particular data-service type, or the specifics of a particular endpoint, was considered beyond the scope of this DCAT version. Rather, we delegated those details to external specifications through the values of the `dct:conformsTo` and `dcat:endpointDescription` properties of the service description. Various standards for these already exist, as mentioned in the document. 

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