Re: DCAT and date

Yes.

You can use whatever date granularity you like, which can be as 
imprecise as a xsd:gYear through to a xsd:dateTime given to the 
millisecond. The wording from [1] is

"... encoded using the relevant ISO 8601 Date and Time compliant string 
and typed using the appropriate XML Schema datatype [XMLSCHEMA-2]"

HTH

Phil.

[1] 
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html#Property:catalog_release_date

On 11/07/2013 16:50, Makx Dekkers wrote:
> My apologies for this late comment. I was made aware in the last couple of
> days that recording publication and modification events for Dataset with
> granularity of one day ("date") may not always be adequate. I was given an
> example of a Dataset that is issued every twelve hours so it would need to
> be able to record the event with xsd:dateTime rather than xsd:date. I also
> thought of an example of weather or traffic reports that are published
> every five minutes.
>
> Is it valid to use dct:issued and dct:modified with xsd:dateTime rather
> than xsd:date?
>
> Makx.
>

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