On 8 Mar 2013, at 13:15, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote: > cygri wrote: > >> Proposed steps for aligning the two specs: >> >> - recommend dc:title/description on qb:DataSet in addition to rdfs:label/comment > > +1...Names are important; dc:title and dc:description will likely lead > to stronger, less ambiguous values for these fields. > >> - recommend dc:issued instead of dc:date for creation date in Data Cube > > +1...dc:issued implies "first appeared" and is better than "created," > "published," etc....Also, dc:date could refer ambiguously to other > dates in the lifecycle. > >> - Add a note to beginning of Data Cube Section 9 that says that other documents such as DCAT have additional recommendations for metadata properties. > > +1...Good to specify connections between the recommendations like this. > >> - make dcat:theme a subproperty of dc:subject in DCAT > > +1...dc:subject is more intuitive and should be primary. dcat:theme > seems more dependent on interpretation… +1 this is missing from the spec by mistake. It is in the ontology turtle file http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat.ttl I will correct it Regards, Fadi > >> The result would be that if you follow the DCAT recommendations, you end up with something that matches the Cube recommendations, except for the use of a subproperty in the case of dcat:theme vs dc:subject. > > Yes. Thanks, Richard! > > > -- > John S. Erickson, Ph.D. > Director, Web Science Operations > Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) > <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> > Twitter & Skype: olyerickson >
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