Re: DCAT & Provenance

Hi,

I'm fine with a pointer but I think it should also be on dcat:Dataset.

Also, with respect to Andrea's comment. PROV is already mapped to dublin
core including dct:provenance.

Thanks
Paul


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org> wrote:

> 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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>
> 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.
> >
> > It would be nice to encourage people to use PROV in the DCAT document
> though for describing provenance.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
> >
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>


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