how to indicate the publisher of a dataset in DCAT

• From: Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@hackspacecatania.it>
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:05:49 +0100
• To: semantic-web@w3.org
• Message-ID: <5cc3db76-6629-f18e-f992-6d1359aefd25@hackspacecatania.it>

Hi all,

in the Data Catalog Vocabulary recommendation
(https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/) the description of the dcat:Dataset
class refers explicitly to the dataset publisher:

"A collection of data, published or curated by a single agent, and
available for access or download in one or more formats."

However in the diagram reported in Section 4 of the same document we see
no properties about the publisher associated to the dcat:Dataset class.
Instead, the dct:publisher properties applies to dcat:Catalog instances,
as confirmed by the dct:publisher property description.

"The entity responsible for making the catalog online."

On the other hand, the example about "Imaginary dataset" reported in
Section 4.1 associates a dct:publisher to a dataset.

So it should be correct to use dct:publisher both for catalogs and for
datasets, or there is something I can't grasp?

Thanks in advance,

CL

Received on Wednesday, 13 December 2017 09:06:15 UTC