Re: [dxwg] Should DCAT adopt of specific definition of versioning? (#1277)

@agreiner review in https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1275 provides a number of key discussion points.

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> There is some interesting reading about possible uses of the term "version". I think it would be helpful to go a step further and clarify what our own definition of the term is. Moreover, I'm surprised, given the requirement to add support for versioning, that we do not seem to be ready to add a version term of our own. It's true that one can interpret the word to mean a handful of different things, but I don't think we solve the problem by simply reiterating the complexity and then telling people to do whatever works for them. I think that people who have asked for DCAT to support versions are asking that because they don't think that solution works.
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> If we will add such a term, the text should clearly state that and should define it narrowly. I'm worried about overlap with other concepts that people may add in a profile, like series. Obviously, one can't use the same term for all the things suggested, and there will be datasets that use more than one (e.g., series where one item is updated).
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> The one usage with which I disagree entirely is for languages. I don't believe that different language distributions are versions in the sense we're discussing, and I think that including that is potentially confusing.


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