- From: bertvannuffelen via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:53:51 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
@all, thanks for the feedback. The reason why I posted this question is exactly to understand what the intented meaning of 'a collection of data', and what would be the expected usage of DCAT is. When I design models I personally like to have that my intuition of the human readeable definition matches the actual shared machine readable information. Personally '_a collection of a data_' is not what I would use to define '_software_'. At most it is a part of what I would consider software. Like the wikipedia definition also indicated. Secondly, this question is raised by me because the introduction/motivation only speaks about "Open Data Portals", but not of alternative catalogues like source code catalogues like github.com. This feels a bit ambivalent to me. As indicated by @makxdekkers I can follow the reasoning that we cannot prohibit/police what should be in. But there is in the introduction a mindset described of the usage context. And that mindset does not refer to catalogues of source code, documents, pictures, catalogues, ... Because of that it is natural to conclude that DCAT (dcat:Dataset) is not intented for those things. Moreover, personally, it is not because DCAT can aid me in creating a catalogue of things I should name it these things a dcat:Dataset. I think that is also partially the reason why dcat:Resource has emerged. So personally, I am inclined to create a new subclass of dcat:Resource for cataloguing software. Out of the discussion, I additionally learned the following: I want to do some cool stuff with the described items in the catalogue: such as visualise, analyse, aggregate, ... What I like the most of DCAT is, that it allows me to aggregate catalogues at zero cost and that the same queries executed on the individual catalogues as on the aggregated catalogues returns me the same answer. It turns out that aggregating catalogues is only meaningful if the items in the DCAT are of the same nature. Out of the discussion above, it is clear that DCAT will not facilitate that. But that the specific usage contexts should make that clear. Fine with me. -- GitHub Notification of comment by bertvannuffelen Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1221#issuecomment-595735441 using your GitHub account
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