RE: reviewing the BP doc from Makx Dekkers on 2015-06-29 (public-dwbp-wg@w3.org from June 2015)

From: Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:04:01 +0200
To: "'Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group'" <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000401d0b29e$5d8b1fc0$18a15f40$@makxdekkers.com>

Laufer,

 

*  I think we have to be carefull about using the words abstract and instance.

 

Agree. Let’s not use those words. 

 

*  From the discussions, it seems to me that the Dataset is an abstract thing with instances that are the distributions.

*  This is what I have understood from the posts from Bernadette and from you. And (until now) I do not agree with this.

 

This is *not* what I have argued. Please look at the diagram and examples in section 4 of DCAT http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/#vocabulary-overview. That section gives an overview of the modelling approach of DCAT. I would agree that there are many other ways you could model this space, but DCAT is just what it is.

 

Makx.

Received on Monday, 29 June 2015 19:04:39 UTC