Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Improve description of relationship between DCAT and PROF #30

Open
nicholascar opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 0 comments
Open

Improve description of relationship between DCAT and PROF #30

nicholascar opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 0 comments

Comments

@nicholascar
Copy link
Contributor

Motivated by the suggestion here w3c/dxwg#808 (comment) and the points here w3c/dxwg#808 (comment) which are:

I have trouble with this characterization in DCAT:

"The main subject that differentiates PROF from DCAT is that PROF specifically addresses the notion of conformance – of profiles to specifications or other profiles – about which DCAT is silent. DCAT does address the notion of instance data conforming to an "established standard" (see it's suggested use of the dct:conformsTo property and here – instance data conformance to specifications – DCAT and PROF offer compatible instructions. "

My problem is that it's kind of saying "the apples don't look like oranges". That DCAT does not address conformance between distributions is logically irrelevant to DCAT. So I wouldn't put this in a description of differences because I don't think it makes sense. DCAT and PROF have distinctly different functions. It WOULD be interesting to explain more about what it means that PROF borrows those structures. Right now there is only one sentence, and I'm not sure that it gives much information to someone who doesn't know DCAT.

"PROF borrows its main structures from DCAT in that PROF's prof:Profile & prof:ResourceDescriptor classes parallel DCAT's dcat:Dataset & dcat:Distribution classes. "

Something perhaps about the profile/dataset classes represent abstract works, and that these works are expressed in distributions which embody the meaning of the abstract work. (OMG, that's even worse! Sorry, but maybe you can see what I mean.)

@plehegar plehegar transferred this issue from w3c/dxwg Feb 25, 2020
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant