Re: [dxwg] Change domain or create superclass of dcat:Distribution

I'm with Makx about the "abstract" classes, but even more so because I don't see the need for dcat:Representation unless it will be the domain of something in the DCAT RDF. I also am a bit concerned about the alignment of properties with classes in the diagram when those properties in the .ttl file do not have that class as a domain. This means that a property like dcat:contactPoint can actually be used without regard to any class adherence because it has no domain (unless I missed it, sorry). I can understand organizing a UML with these structural concepts as a form of documentation, but only if we agree that this doesn't reflect the graph structure. To manage the structure in this diagram you of course need a validation language like SHACL or ShEx -- or an application profle. 

For this reason I conclude that dcat:Representation is not needed. However, I defer to @azaroth42 who did a brilliant analysis of the necessary and less necessary classes of an RDF/OWL ontology in the museum world, and managed to reduce the ontology to its necessary parts. RobS?

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