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!
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