Re: [dxwg] Confusion between major classes as newly defined in DCAT (#431)

The addition of the sentence about Resource being a parent class addresses my concern here. I do feel that the group still needs to reach agreement on how much distributions can differ from each other. If they are informationally equivalent, then I agree that cataloging at the level of datasets still makes sense, but if they can differ, then it seems to me that we would want to catalog at the level of distributions. If distributions are informationally equivalent, then profiles cannot be used to generate different distributions of the same dataset. So we are left needing a term for the variants of a dataset that conform to different profiles, or else saying that profiles generate different datasets (but what are the things form which they generate them?). What we have in the doc now is at least a helpful clarification. I suppose we could close this particular issue and handle the larger question of whether distributions are informationally equivalent elsewhere.


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