- From: Martin Alvarez-Espinar <mlvarez@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:12:18 +0100
- To: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Cc: Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>, Public GLD WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
Hello Phil, Good work on the Working Draft [1]! (also Fadi and John, of course). I totally agree with this early version, but I would like to point out the need of an additional property for the dcat:Distribution class. It would be used to indicate if the access to data refereed by dcat:accessURL is either 'direct' or 'indirect'. We discussed it time ago, but we didn't modify the draft on the wiki. Some examples: -> Direct: accessURL points to a WebService, RSS, XLS, or XML, which offers the distribution directly. -> Indirect: accessURL points to a REST WebService or API documentation (how to use it, parameters, etc) | an XML zipped We have solved this issue using the property dcterms:type and a couple of concepts (indirect-access, direct-access) to set type of each distribution. [] a dcat:Distribution ; dcat:accessURL "http://.../file.xml"^^xsd:anyURI ; dcterms:type <http://purl.org/ctic/dcat#accessMode-direct> ; ... [] a dcat:Distribution ; dcat:accessURL "http://.../file.zip"^^xsd:anyURI ; dcterms:type <http://purl.org/ctic/dcat#accessMode-indirect> ; ... I would like to give a hand enriching the draft if you need it. Maybe we should provide more implementation examples for each property (resources, taxonomies, etc.). Best regards, Martin [1] https://www.w3.org/2011/gld/group/WD-DCAT-20111218.html -- Martin Alvarez Espinar W3C Spain Office Manager tel.:+34 984390616 http://www.w3c.es/Personal/Martin mlvarez@w3.org
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