Re: [dxwg] Best practice for a loosely-structured catalog

@jakubklimek I understand your concern about the blank nodes. In this issue I was tackling a separate question: the lack of guidance on how to represent the information in many existing catalogs, and the consequent mis-use of the `dcat:distribution` property. The examples above are merely concerned with getting the modeling right. The key point is to propose that `dct:hasPart` relationships should be to other _datasets_, not to _distributions_. 

Best practice would certainly be to identify and describe them in their own right. However, as we have no more information available in the catalog that I was quoting from, I was just making sure that the model was correct first. 

We have already heard that existing catalogs commonly use blank nodes for `Distributions`. So we should probably tackle recommendations around blank nodes generally in a separate issue. Perhaps you can create that? 

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