- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:11:48 -0400
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, public-gld-wg@w3.org
+1 to cygri's subtle re-wording; thanks! On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: > Phil, > > On 8 Mar 2013, at 12:15, Phil Archer wrote: >> The proposal says that DCAT will include >> >> * an informative reference to VoID, >> * a brief explanation of the difference in scope between both vocabularies, >> * a pointer to a place that talks about the relationship in more detail, which would ideally be an updated VoID spec. >> >> Which seems right. However, do you or Fadi have some suggested text? > > Yes. It was in the email and actually very hard to miss! Let me repeat it: > > > PROPOSAL: Resolve ISSUE-54 by adding the following text to the DCAT introduction: > > [[ > Data can come in many formats, ranging from spreadsheets over XML and RDF to various speciality formats. DCAT does not make any assumptions about the format of the datasets described in a catalog. Other, complementary vocabularies may be used together with DCAT to provide more detailed format-specific information. For example, properties from the VoID vocabulary [[VoID]] can be used to express various statistics about a DCAT-described dataset if that dataset is in RDF format. > ]] > > > In short, your proposed text says: "VoID is for linked data, DCAT is for catalogs". My proposed text says: "VoID is for data in RDF format, DCAT is neutral with regards to format." Is this acceptable to you? It would avoid John's objection. > > Best, > Richard > > > > >> Please improve on this, for example: >> >> The VoID vocabulary is widely used to describe linked data sets that may or may not be published within a catalog. DCAT is designed to describe any sort of dataset but always within the context of a catalog. This difference in use case is what leads to the differences between the two vocabularies. Publishers are encouraged to publish metadata about their linked data sets using VoID in addition to records that appear in catalogs that use DCAT. >> >> That's quite a strong endorsement of VoID of course but as an informative bit of text we should be OK. >> >> Phil. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 08/03/2013 11:26, Richard Cyganiak wrote: >>> There are two remaining issues on DCAT that we couldn't address in the telco. A Proposals for one of them is below. If you have any objection to the proposed course of action, please say so via email. >>> >>> >>> ISSUE-54: Relationship of DCAT and VoID >>> https://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/54 >>> >>> PROPOSAL: Resolve ISSUE-54 by adding the following text to the DCAT introduction: >>> >>> [[ >>> Data can come in many formats, ranging from spreadsheets over XML and RDF to various speciality formats. DCAT does not make any assumptions about the format of the datasets described in a catalog. Other, complementary vocabularies may be used together with DCAT to provide more detailed format-specific information. For example, properties from the VoID vocabulary [[VoID]] can be used to express various statistics about a DCAT-described dataset if that dataset is in RDF format. >>> ]] >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> Phil Archer >> W3C eGovernment >> >> http://philarcher.org >> +44 (0)7887 767755 >> @philarcher1 >> > > -- 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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