Re: [dxwg] DCAT - DDI alignment (profile)

The DDI-RDF discovery vocabulary (DISCO) does make some statements on [the relationship to DCAT and other vocabularies](http://rdf-vocabulary.ddialliance.org/discovery.html#relationship-to-data-cube-dcat-and-xkos) that I am including here for consideration:

>Our [LogicalDataSet](http://rdf-vocabulary.ddialliance.org/discovery.html#dfn-disco-logicaldataset) is a subclass of DCAT’s Dataset, and our [DataFile](http://rdf-vocabulary.ddialliance.org/discovery.html#dfn-disco-datafile) is a subclass of DCAT’s >Distribution. DCAT makes few assumptions about the kind of datasets being described, and >focuses on general metadata about the datasets (mostly using Dublin Core), and on different ways >of distributing and accessing the dataset, including availability of the dataset in multiple formats. >Combining terms from both DCAT and the Discovery Vocabulary can be useful for a number of >reasons:

>    Describing collections (catalogs) of research datasets (DCAT)
>    Providing additional information about physical aspects (file size, file formats) of research data >files (DCAT)
>    Providing information about the data collection that produced the datasets in a data catalog >(disco)
>    Providing information about the logical structure (variables, concepts, etc.) of tabular datasets in >a data catalog (disco)

>DCAT is richer for the description of collections and catalogue. Disco supports richer descriptions >of groups of datasets or individual datasets. In this spec, some of our examples are partially based >on DCAT (and we will indicate when this is the case).




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