- From: makxdekkers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:14:15 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
@kcoyle I understand your opinion about a file with a single 'thing', but I think it is really hard to declare something a single thing -- it really depends on your perspective. On the extreme end of things, I guess we can agree that a single number (like "26") is not a dataset, but beyond that things get more difficult. The example of an MP3 file, in my mind, is the wrong perspective. What to me is important what the MP3 file is a distribution of. For example, there could be a set of oral histories or a podcast with several items that are distributed as an MP3 file. And an image could contain a visualization (for example [this one](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-2/images/DCAT-summary-all-attributes.png)) that could be a graphic representation of a 'collection of data', which is distributed as a PNG file. From one perspective, you could say it is a 'single thing', but someone else could have a completely different perspective in which it is really a 'collection of data'. So, again, I think that trying to pin down what is a dataset and what is not, is something that we could argue about _ad infinitum_, and I think we should not try. I keep coming back to @dr-shorthair's "'_if either of the classes dcat:Dataset or dcat:DataService meet your catalog needs, then use them. If your cataloguing needs requires a different combination or additional properties, then consider extending one of the existing classes, or defining another sub-class of dcat:Resource'._" -- GitHub Notification of comment by makxdekkers Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1221#issuecomment-606025121 using your GitHub account
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