Re: DCAT & Provenance

Hello Jeni and Paul,

Thanks for your feedback regarding representing provenance in DCAT.

DCAT properties were based on a survey of existing government catalogs. At the time of the survey, catalogs didn't include provenance description.
I totally agree that including a provenance description is very valuable. However, in the favour of keeping DCAT minimal and focused, I suggest that 
instead of adding properties from PROV to the DCAT spec, a link to PROV-O ontology is added as currently implemented in the draft (Catalog record section):
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html#Class:_Catalog_record

I hope that is sufficient.

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Fadi Maali
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Irish Research Council Embark Scholarship holder
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On 3 Apr 2013, at 19:25, Paul Groth <p.t.groth@vu.nl> wrote:

> Hi Jeni
> 
> +1 for this. From the PROV perspective we are actual ok with both. In our mapping to from dublin core to PROV dct:provenance maps to prov:has_provenance.
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> It would be nice to encourage people to use PROV in the DCAT document though for describing provenance.
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking through DCAT, I notice that there's no property that is recommended for indicating the provenance of a Distribution or CatalogRecord.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to include prov:has_provenance as a property of dcat:Distribution and dcat:CatalogRecord, to point to a provenance record? Or dct:provenance to fit in with the other properties.
> 
> (I guess one source of my question is that I'm not sure what the rationale is in deciding whether a property is included in DCAT or not.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
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