Re: [dxwg] versioning and resource status (#1238)

@makxdekkers @tombaker you have correctly identified most of the considerations. 

Clearly there was a decision made early in the development of DCAT to re-use elements from existing well-established vocabularies in preference to coinages of concepts in a new namespace. I'm comfortable with that. But it then begs the question about which external vocabularies to trust. DC is so well established that is a no-brainer, (notwithstanding the equivocation regarding the RDF/RDFS formalization). And since we are working in the W3C context, the preference should be to use W3C vocabularies, But there is also the matter of how _many_ dependencies we accept because of this. In principle it should not matter - they are all just URIS - but we know that in practice there is some cost to too many namespaces, because of confusion in the developer community. So I'm reluctant to add a whole new namespace for just one resource. ADMS is an edge case in this context in my opinion. It is W3C, but not widely adopted or actively maintained. 

But looking from a DC point of view, DC provides a well-known set of widely used predicates, and I rely on it for many applications. I'm developing a profile of DCAT for the Queensland Government right now, for example, a lot of which is rules around the use of DC properties. But 'status' comes up all the time, and I'm always somewhat surprised to find it missing from the 'standard' RDF vocabs. It is such a common requirement I think it warrants being added to one of the _standard_ vocabs - I'm not sure that ADMS quite makes the cut. 

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