Re: DCAT & Provenance

Thank you Jeni!

typo corrected as well.

Best regards,
Fadi
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Fadi Maali
PhD student @ DERI
Irish Research Council Embark Scholarship holder
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On 30 May 2013, at 13:32, Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org> wrote:

> Hi Fadi,
> 
> (Per process) OK, that's fine.
> 
> s/particualr/particular/
> 
> Jeni
> 
> On 30 May 2013, at 12:13, Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Jeni and Paul,
>> 
>> Thanks for your feedback regarding representing provenance in DCAT.
>> 
>> DCAT properties were based on a survey of existing government catalogs. At the time of the survey, catalogs didn't include provenance description.
>> I totally agree that including a provenance description is very valuable. However, in the favour of keeping DCAT minimal and focused, I suggest that 
>> instead of adding properties from PROV to the DCAT spec, a link to PROV-O ontology is added as currently implemented in the draft (Catalog record section):
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html#Class:_Catalog_record
>> 
>> I hope that is sufficient.
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Fadi Maali
>> PhD student @ DERI
>> Irish Research Council Embark Scholarship holder
>> http://www.deri.ie/users/fadi-maali
>> 
>> On 3 Apr 2013, at 19:25, Paul Groth <p.t.groth@vu.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jeni
>>> 
>>> +1 for this. From the PROV perspective we are actual ok with both. In our mapping to from dublin core to PROV dct:provenance maps to prov:has_provenance.
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to encourage people to use PROV in the DCAT document though for describing provenance.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Looking through DCAT, I notice that there's no property that is recommended for indicating the provenance of a Distribution or CatalogRecord.
>>> 
>>> Would it be appropriate to include prov:has_provenance as a property of dcat:Distribution and dcat:CatalogRecord, to point to a provenance record? Or dct:provenance to fit in with the other properties.
>>> 
>>> (I guess one source of my question is that I'm not sure what the rationale is in deciding whether a property is included in DCAT or not.)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jeni
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>> 
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