Re: [dxwg] Add property to link from Distribution -> Dataset (inverse of dcat:distribution)

@larsgsvensson said:

> To me this sounds like an argument to make dcat:accessURL (or at least dcat:downloadURL an owl:inverseFunctionalProperty since that would allow us to conclude that if two distributions have the same accessURL, they are the same distribution.

Ops, I was actually trying to make an argument _against_ that.

`dcat:accessURL` is pointing to a "place" from which you can download the data, but from the same place you can download other data. The "place" is the same, not the distribution.

It is true that the situation may be different for `dcat:downloadURL`, as this property is supposed to provide a URL which gives you direct access to the data. However, this is not necessarily the case - the `dcat:downloadURL` can point to a compressed archive containing more that one dataset. Again, it is the "place" `dcat:downloadURL` is pointing to that is the same, not the distribution.

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