- From: Riccardo Albertoni via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:10:22 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
It might be worth noting that the current DCAT Editor Draft acknowledges some flexibility on what to consider as items of [dcat:datasetSeries](https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#Class:Dataset_Series), which already includes the use of Distributions in place of Datasets. Indeed, the property [dcat:inSeries](https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#Property:dataset_in_series), which links the items to data series, has no domain specified, and its usage note says ` Normally, child datasets in dataset series are represented as dcat:Dataset. The use of dcat:Distribution for typing child datasets is however recognized as a possible alternative, whenever it addresses more effectively the requirements of a given application scenario. ` I think we can distinguish between informatively equivalent and non-informative equivalent distributions using the properties dcat:distribution and dcat:inSeries. I would expect the informative equivalence holds between distributions of the same dataset, i.e. the distribution linked to the same dataset via dcat:distribution, not between distributions used as items in a dataset Series, i.e., distributions linked via dcat:inSeries to a dcat:datasetSeries. Said that... the current [dataset series](https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#dataset-series) section does not mention the cases in which distributions are used in place of datasets. I guess a couple of examples more might help to understand to what extent the current design meets the emerging use cases. -- GitHub Notification of comment by riccardoAlbertoni Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1429#issuecomment-980316895 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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