- From: makxdekkers via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:06:45 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
@sabinem As far as I understand, DCAT specifies a way to describe **datasets** in a catalogue, not the **data** inside a dataset. It defines a way to describe characteristics like what it is about, who is responsible, and for the distribution where it is and what format it is in. DCAT does not look _inside_ the data in the dataset in any detail. This is, in my mind, because DCAT does not want to limit the kind of datasets it can describe. Data may indeed often be tabular but there are many cases where it is not. Other groups at W3C have concentrated on the data, and the one that would interest you the most I guess is [CSV on the Web](https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page), but there are others like [Data Cube](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/) for multi-dimensional data like statistics, [Spatial Data on the Web](https://www.w3.org/2021/sdw/) and others. DCAT provides a way to describe these various types of datasets with different kinds of data together in a catalogue. -- GitHub Notification of comment by makxdekkers Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1418#issuecomment-955162937 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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