Re: [dxwg] Backward (in)compatibility among versions. (#1258)

 As a part of DCAT, a binary indicator of backward compatibility for a dataset doesn't strike me as a good idea, since what makes a dataset unusable for one purpose has no effect on another, so I vote for 1. I agree it's a good idea to provide a changelog for a dataset, and VersionNotes is a very reasonable place for that. I think that backward compatibility should be noted for a vocabulary in the spec for the vocab itself. I don't think that a vocabulary is data unless you take the point of view that everything on the web is data, which is of course philosophically defensible but doesn't help in scoping a vocabulary like DCAT. It seems to me a binary indicator of backward compatibility for a dataset as a whole is more likely to be misleading than not.

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