- From: Rob Atkinson via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:32:31 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
There are two separate issues here - semantics and entailment. By making a statement that licences (and indeed other metadata such as data quality etc ) specified for Datasets apply to Distributions, unless overridden, (i.e. the standard object/method inheritance pattern) then it is possible to entail these as properties of a Distribution, and clients still only have to look there. This simply becomes a functional requirement for catalogs of DCAT records. It makes it far easier for publishers, and has greater informational content, than repeating properties for multiple distributions. (the semantics could be specified in the inverse direction - which is that if a Dataset has no such properties, then these are entailed from unique properties from the set of Distributions). The use cases that are obvious are around content negotiation, and particularly by profile. We are increasingly seeing data accessible by multiple API distributions rather than libraries of artefacts, so its possible the thinking needs to be revisited. -- GitHub Notification of comment by rob-metalinkage Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/104#issuecomment-365576133 using your GitHub account
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