Re: ACTION-86: AndreaPerego to consider if dct:accessRights should be inlcuded in DCAT (Dataset Exchange Working Group)

Hi Andrea,

I think this is a great step in the right direction.

There are a couple of things that I think may need some discussion, though

1. I'm not sure about recommending to express everything about use with dct:license.
I think the sentence
"where a statement is associated with the resource that is explicitly declared as a 'license', i.e., when the rights statement is only about use conditions"
dangerously equates licenses with statements about use conditions. First, I'm not sure one can say a license is always about use condition. Perhaps more certainly, there can be statements about use issued outside of (formal) license, like this one: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/.
So if stating such equivalence can be avoided (i.e. it's not necessary to the story) I think it should be avoided.

2. Maybe you can avoid strong statements about the ranges of the Dublin Core properties, like
"The object of dct:license, a dct:LicenseDocument, is "A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource."
Of course I don't like this range assignment and what it means, i.e., it's dangerous to tell that URIs of licenses are always the same as URIs of their documents. dct:license is used all over the place with objects that do not count as documents.
But anyway, the coming version of Dublin Core is going to relax the range assignments, and formal ranges like this one are going to disappear, being replace by a 'range includes' in the flavour of what Schema.org does for its properties. So the sentence would become wrong.

The same is going to apply for the other similar sentence
"The object of dct:accessRights is a dct:RightsStatement providing "Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status."
(even though I liked the range of dct:accessRights much more ;-) )

Cheers,

Antoine

On 23/11/2018 00:56, andrea.perego@ec.europa.eu wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As Dave mentioned in [1], during the last DCAT subgroup meeting I was given an action [2] to propose a revision to the DCAT spec, to incorporate the use of dct:accessRights.
> 
> I just did it, and submitted the revision proposal via the following PR: https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/pull/607
> 
> I tried to provide enough details about the changes I made in the PR description. I decided to focus only on Section 9 (License and rights statements), which it is exactly devoted to providing guidance on the specification of rights, and it is linked to from all the relevant class / property definitions.
> 
> You can preview the revised version of Section 9 here:
> 
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/dxwg/andrea-perego-dcat-sec-rights-rev/dcat/index.html#license-rights
> 
> And here you can see the HTML diff highlighting the changes:
> 
> https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fdxwg%2Fdcat%2Findex.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Frawgit.com%2Fw3c%2Fdxwg%2Fandrea-perego-dcat-sec-rights-rev%2Fdcat%2Findex.html#license-rights
> 
> Looking forward to your feedback
> 
> Andrea
> 
> PS: This revision is meant to address both ACTION-85 and ACTION-86.
> 
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> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2018Nov/0723.html
> [2] https://www.w3.org/2018/11/21-dxwgdcat-minutes#x04
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> European Commission DG JRC
> Directorate B - Growth and Innovation
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> ACTION-86: AndreaPerego to consider if dct:accessRights should be inlcuded in DCAT (Dataset Exchange Working Group)
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> https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/track/actions/86
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> On: Andrea Perego
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