- From: Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:23:41 +0100
- To: Makx Dekkers <makx@makxdekkers.com>, Richard Cyganiak <richard.cyganiak@deri.org>
- Cc: GLD Public Comments <public-gld-comments@w3.org>, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
Hi Makx, regarding you comment on DCAT and SKOS: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/2013Mar/0201.html >It's just that I ask for >clarification to understand why, as soon as someone uses dcat:theme, >DCAT expects a certain behaviour, either based on a formal rule >(normative in 5.5: "It is necessary to use either skos:inScheme or >skos:topConceptOf on every skos:Concept") or in non-normative note (the >one in 4.2). > > to know why those rules are necessary for the base specification. >>They are not necessary. But they are beneficial for the use case of >>filtering a DCAT-enabled catalog by theme. This is a feature that's >>supported in the majority of government data catalogs, and DCAT is >> designed to support exactly that set of features. >> >I think it might help the reader of the specification if such expected >behaviour were made explicit. Please notice that I "hedged" the language in the Spec now: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html#class-concept Do you agree with the new text? Best regards, Fadi -------------------------------------------------- Fadi Maali PhD student @ DERI Irish Research Council Embark Scholarship holder http://www.deri.ie/users/fadi-maali
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