Re: W3C Data Exchange Working Group: Invitation to review draft revision of DCAT

Hello Clemens,

Thanks for your direct comments to the Second Public Draft.  This is the kind of feedback that we greatly value and it has already stimulated some good conversations within the WG - it helps us test our assumptions and improve our arguments/presentations.

I know that there has also been a number of private conversations on your concerns, but to simplify process (and to ensure the widest audience and openness), I have raised two issues in our github repo to cover further discussion and to help bring it to a resolution.  These issues can be found at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/530 (on the topic of the services in data catalogs) and https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/531 (on the topic of the interaction of profiles and distributions).

By tracking these issues in github, we gain the ability to link these to other existing issues that are driving the day to day work on improving the DCAT spec and developing the profile guidance document to ensure they are addressed completely - we would be happy for you to contribute to the discussions in that forum if you so wished, though we will ensure that we loop back into the W3C managed mailing archive at appropriate points.  In particular, we know we still have several issues around distributions that we aim to clarify in the next few weeks so the interaction with profiles is live topic.

I hope this is a helpful way to progress the continuing discussion.

David Browning
Platform Architect, Refinitiv


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