Re: [dxwg] Generalize domain of dcat:distribution (#1576)

Thanks for your answers and the link to ADMS, I was not aware of that W3C note (@agbeltran maybe we can use it also for inspiration). 

I was reviewing dcat, and a dataset is defined as a `collection of data`. I find difficult to map a tool to a collection of data. And an ontology too. Stretching out the definition you could say that a tool is a collection of bytes, or that an ontology may be seen as a collection of axioms/triples. But then anything is dataset, right? A Person is a collection of cells, a cell is a collection of atoms, a building is a collection of bricks, a sentence is a collection of words, etc.

If that is the case, is there really a difference between dcat:Resource and dcat:Dataset except for having a distribution? If a resource `[dcat:Resource](https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/#Class:Resource) represents a dataset, a data service or any other resource that may be described by a metadata record in a catalog`, then I think my point on having `distribution` associated with dcat:Resources is not crazy, no? Are there any examples of `dcat:Resources` that can be kept in catalogues but do not have distributions? Basically, are there any Resources that are not Datasets? I was thinking maybe a rock, but they do have physical distributions (where to find the rock in real life)

Thanks in advance!




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