Re: Using DCAT for RSS

On 18/08/2016 11:16, cristiano longo wrote:
> Thanks Phil. I have two use cases. The former is simpler: i have an rdf
> dataset if events and associated a sparql endpoint, an rss feed and a
> Calendar file. Here it is quite clear that the rdf dataset have to be
> modeled as dcat!:Dataset whereas the sparql endpoint, the rss feed and the
> iCal file are distributions of this dataset.

Yep.

  The latter case is more
> confusing: i have just a website with some articles and an associated rss
> feed. I see nothing here that is obviously a dataset (however the
> definition of set of data is really large)

Ah, right. Yes, the definition of a dataset is so broad that a website 
counts, and I guess therefore an RSS feed counts as a distribution.

Cheers

Phil

>
> Il 18/ago/2016 11:27 AM, "Phil Archer" <phila@w3.org> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Cristiano,
>>
>> dcat:Dataset and dcat:Distribution are not disjoint so you can have an RSS
>> feed as an instance of both. But it wouldn't be correct to have a
>> dcat:Dataset that was a collection of RSS feeds and then each of those
>> feeds as a Distribution since the Distribution is a way of accessing the
>> full dataset. You may have an API that allows you to select subsets of the
>> dataset (that's a hot topic for me at the moment) and so your Distribution,
>> which is an API, might well yield a single RSS feed but you'll need to
>> think of it like that.
>>
>> I'm confusing myself just writing this but I hope it makes some sense.
>> And, it would be remiss of me, when talking about DCAT, not to point you to
>> the workshop on that topic later this year: https://www.w3.org/2016/11/sds
>> voc/ Your question is very much in scope for that.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>> On 17/08/2016 22:01, Cristiano Longo wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks, I'm creating a list of intresting RSS feeds. I suppose that
>>> thet can be modeled as DCAT datasets (with RSS as distribution), am I
>>> right?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestion or comment is welcome,
>>>
>>> CL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Phil Archer
>> W3C Data Activity Lead
>> http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
>>
>> http://philarcher.org
>> +44 (0)7887 767755
>> @philarcher1
>>
>

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