DCAT Last Call issues: additional rules for skos:Concept

I would like a clarification of the usage note at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130312/#class-category-and-cat
egory-scheme. 

 

It seems to me that DCAT, as a base specification, should keep away from
declaring properties mandatory as such recommendations would depend on
the requirements of a particular application. 

 

Moreover, according to the SKOS specification "there are no conditions
preventing a SKOS concept from taking part in zero, one, or more than
one concept scheme" (http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L1101) so I
would think that DCAT can't require that skos:inScheme or
skos:topConceptOf is mandatory on every skos:Concept.

 

Makx.

 

 


Makx Dekkers

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