- From: Andrea Perego via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:55:53 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
To complement what said so far:
1. Existing examples of classifications (as well as code lists, thesauri, mappings, etc.) documented as datasets can be found in the [EU Open Data Portal](https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/) and the [European Data Portal](https://www.europeandataportal.eu/). E.g., [all reference data maintained by the EU Publications Office](https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies) (EuroVoc included) are published as datasets - see: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/publisher/publ
2. The same applies to the reference data maintained in the [INSPIRE Registry](https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/registry/). This is also reflected in their RDF representation, where a code list is typed both as a `skos:ConceptScheme` and `dcat:Dataset` - see, e.g..: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/theme.en.rdf
3. The DCAT profile which probably fits best your use case is [BregDCAT-AP](https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/access-base-registries/solution/abr-bregdcat-ap) (DCAT application profile for base registries), which is also complemented by a number of support tools: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/access-base-registries/solution/abr-bregdcatap-tools/about - @makxdekkers , I wonder whether this is the project you were referring to
4. As suggested by @riccardoAlbertoni in https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1286#issuecomment-749616859 , you can put a "flag" to say that this is a classification by using `dct:type`. This approach is used in DCAT-AP and related extensions. The Dataset Type Named Authority List maintained by the EU Publications Office could be used for this purpose: https://op.europa.eu/it/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/dataset-type
5. About the terms to be mapped:
- **Dates**: You may also consider using other properties from DCTERMS, as `dct:dateSubmitted` and `dct:dateAccepted`, or to complement the date with the classification status (approved, endorsed, etc.). We have included a draft section on these aspects in the first public WD of DCAT3 (see [§10.3 Resource life-cycle](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/#life-cycle))
- **Citation**: It is not clear to me if this is meant to specify how to cite the classification, or to point to a document citing the classification. In the latter case, DCAT recommends using `dct:isReferencedBy` (see [§C.3 Link datasets and publications](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/#examples-dataset-publication)). In the former case, you may consider using [`dct:bibliographicCitation`](https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/terms/bibliographicCitation/). An example of its use is DCAT-AP-JRC (a DCAT-AP extension for research data) - see https://ec-jrc.github.io/dcat-ap-jrc/#dataset-bibliographic-citation
- **Maintainer**: Whether to map it to `dct:publisher` depends on what "maintainer" means in your context, and whether maintainer and publisher could be different. Note that DCAT provides a general pattern for the specification of roles for which no specific property is defined - see [§14.1 Relationships between datasets and agents](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/#qualified-attribution)
- **Reasons of revision**: Indeed, the closer notion in DCAT is "version notes" in [§10.2 Version information](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/#version-info) (`adms:versionNotes`), which is also used in DCAT-AP and related extensions
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