Re: [dxwg] Proposal to include a property for "type of data" contained in a dataset (#1548)

@svituz when reading your case  I get the feeling it could be resolved with as @rob-metalinkage mentioned creating a proper DCAT profile.

For you specific profiling case, DCAT has 3 options for classifications:
- keywords which are literals
- subject which are concepts usually exprected from some classification
- themes which are a special kind of subjects 

In the DCAT-AP ecosystem we encounter this need regulary that one would like to classify the datasets according to some domain specific needs.
There are two strategies here:

- an aggregation one: use dct:subject directly
- an precise distinctive one: use a subproperty of dct:subject 

The second option is the safest in case one deals with datasets that must be documented by multiple DCAT profiles. It means that in your domain you can express a specific set of constraints on that one, and that any other user of that metadata can use it as if it was dct:subject.

> 
> ```
> :studyDataset1 a dcat:Dataset;
> dcat:theme icd10:C50;
> profile:collectionOrigin obo:NCIT_C25294.
>
> profile:collectionOrigin rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:subject.
> profile:collectionOrigin rdfs:description "The origin of data collection"@en.
> profile:collectionOrigin skos:note "This is indicated using the NCIT classification"@en. 
> ```
> 

You can use this pattern for as many classifications you want without loosing compatibility with DCAT (because of the subPropertyOf relationship). 


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