[dxwg] Generalize domain of dcat:distribution (#1576)

dgarijo has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/dxwg:

== Generalize domain of dcat:distribution ==
I am submitting this issue on behalf of the FAIR-Impact community, and per suggestion of (@agbeltran).

We would like to reuse DCAT for describing catalogs semantic resources, creating a profile for semantic artefacts (ontologies and vocabularies). Our community represents the Linked Open Vocabularies and the Agrovoc catalogs among others.

Our request is whether it is possible to generalize the domain of dcat:Distribution to dcat:Resource, as not all things with distributions are necessarily datasets. For example, if we want to build a catalog of ontologies, websites,  software tools, or papers. All these are resources that have `distribution`, but are not necessarily `Dataset`s. We feel that extending `dcat:Dataset` for all these resources is like shoehorning the standard (e.g., properties like temporalResolution do not apply) . 

Thanks in advance!

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1576 using your GitHub account


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Received on Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:54:00 UTC