Re: [dxwg] Generalize domain of dcat:distribution (#1576)

As a reflection, the WG should consider if dcat:Resource has a semantical meaning or if it just an alternative for rdfs:Resource.

I always have read dcat:Resource as a Catalogued Resource, i.e. a resource that is in the catalogue and which is actively managed by the catalogue.
By making a Distribution a dcat:Resource subclass, it becomes a directly managed entity. Thus a catalogue of Distributions is fine. 

Then also dcat:distribution gets maybe a different semantics as dcat:dataset is a subproperty of dcat:resource and thus for coherency reasons also dcat:distribution must be a subproperty of dcat:resource.  
But then all datasets become catalogues... as dcat:resource has as domain dcat:Catalog.








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