Re: DCAT Last Call issues: additional rules for skos:Concept

On 26 Mar 2013, at 13:55, "Makx Dekkers" <makx@makxdekkers.com> wrote:
> From your response I understand that skos:Concepts that are not a member
> in a skos:ConceptScheme are not allowed as objects of dcat:theme.
> Correct?

That's the rule as written in the spec.

> What is the reason behind that requirement? 

So that one can discover the entire concept scheme in use for the given catalog.

> Are there any additional rules? For example: must all ConceptSchemes
> referred to in the datasets in a catalog be asserted in
> dcat:themeTaxonomy on the catalog?

See Section 4.2 and dcat:themeTaxonomy in the spec.

> Or are those consistency rules left to the implementer?

DCAT doesn't go into as much detail as, say, Data Cube or SKOS regarding consistency checks or integrity constraints or other kinds of rules. The WG has voted to send the spec to LC without such rules in place.

Best,
Richard

Received on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:10:43 UTC