Re: [dxwg] Confusion between major classes as newly defined in DCAT

>From the quick overview definitions, it was not clear to me what the difference is between a >resource and a catalogRecord.

The difference is described in the CatalogRecord usage note (see https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#Class:Catalog_Record): "It exists for catalogs where a distinction is made between metadata about a dataset or service and metadata about the entry in the catalog about the dataset or service. "

I would suggest to change to definition from
"A record in a catalog, describing the registration of a single dataset or data service." 
to 
"A record in a catalog, describing the registration of a single ```dcat:Resource```."

> I think it would help to explain up front that a resource is being used as a parent class. At this >point, it's not clear to me that it should be the parent of a dataset rather than a distribution.

This is explained in Resource usage note (see https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#Class:Resource)

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