Re: [dxwg] definitions clarifications of conforms to (#1130)

@riccardoAlbertoni The DQV standard says that the "conforms to" statement relates to the metadata, not to the resource which the metadata describes:

>The following example illustrates how a (DCAT) catalog record can be said to be conformant with the GeoDCAT-AP standard itself. 

```
:myDatasetRecord a dcat:CatalogRecord ;
 foaf:primaryTopic :myDataset ;
 dcterms:conformsTo :geoDCAT-AP .
```

Given that the GeoDCAT-AP is a standard for metadata, not for the resources that are pointed to from a DCAT catalog, then I think this says the opposite of what @makxdekkers and @smrgeoinfo were saying. That DQV statement is consistent with the definition quoted by @bertvannuffelen, which is:

>catalog record:
This property SHOULD be used to indicate the model, schema, ontology, view or profile that the catalog record metadata conforms to.

Note that it says "that the catalog record *metadata* conforms to", not "that the cataloged resource conforms to." So I think that the DCAT definitions are consistent with what is in DQV, but it seems that the interpretation that the three of you are making is different. I honestly don't care which interpretation is given the final approval, but we do need to eliminate the inconsistencies we've surfaced here.

Also, as I pointed out above, if the meaning of:

```
ex:catrec1 dct:conformsTo ex:standard1
ex:catrec1 foaf:primaryTopic ex:dcatResource
```

is that `ex:catrec1 dct:conformsTo ex:standard1` means that the `ex:dcatResource` conforms to `ex:standard1` then there does seem to be a redundancy because there are two places where the `ex:dcatResource dct:conformsTo` is stated, in graph for the Catalog Record and in the graph for the Resource:

```
ex:catrec1 dct:conformsTo ex:standard1 
ex:catrec1 foaf:primaryTopic ex:dcatResource
ex:dcatResource rdf:type dcat:Resource
ex:dcatResource dct:conformsTo ex:standard1
```

and one wonders if that redundancy is intentional.




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