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Added Simon's text on informationally equivalent distributions
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agbeltran committed Feb 6, 2019
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<p> Examples of distributions include a CSV file, a netCDF file, a JSON document, or a data-cube, files made accessible according to different profiles, such as XML or JSON schemas or ShEx or SHACL expressions.</p>

<p>In some cases all distributions of a dataset will be fully informationally equivalent, in the sense that lossless transformations between the representations are possible. An example would be different serializations of an RDF graph using RDF/XML, Turtle, N3, JSON-LD. However, in other cases the distributions might have different levels of fidelity to the underlying data. For example, a graphical representation alongside a CSV file. The question of whether different representations can be understood to be distributions of the same dataset is use-case specific, so the judgement is the responsibility of the provider. </p>

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The scope of <code>dcat:Distribution</code> here is narrower than in DCAT-2014 [[?VOCAB-DCAT-20140116]], where it also included APIs and feeds.
Data catalogues designed using DCAT-2014 therefore used instances of type <code>dcat:Distribution</code> to describe data distribution services.
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