This new version of the vocabulary updates and expands the original but preserves backward compatibility. A full list of the significant changes (with links to the relevant GitHub issues) is described in .
-- The exit criteria for CR focused on v3 new features that replicate features that were included in application profiles of v2 as a way of remedying missing and necessary elements. - Implementation will be evidenced by showing use of the new properties/classes (or terms with equivalent meaning) in implementations of catalogs. -
Issues, requirements, and features that have been considered and discussed by the Data eXchange Working Group but have not been addressed due to lack of maturity or consensus are collected in GitHub. Those believed to be a priority for a future release are in the milestone DCAT Future Priority Work.
-- The following terms are at-risk, and may be dropped during the CR period: -
- -- “At-risk” is a W3C Process term-of-art, and does not necessarily imply that the feature is in danger of being dropped or delayed. It means that the WG believes the feature may have difficulty being interoperably implemented in a timely manner, and marking it as such allows the WG to drop the feature if necessary when transitioning to the Proposed Rec stage, without having to publish a new Candidate Rec without the feature first. -