- Under the revised scope, instances of type dcat:Distribution SHOULD be limited to representations of datasets which might be transported as files, and SHOULD NOT be used for data services such as APIs or feeds. Data services including APIs and feeds SHOULD be described using instances of type dcat:DataService or dcat:DataDistributionService. + Under the revised scope, instances of type dcat:Distribution SHOULD be limited to representations of datasets which might be transported as files, and SHOULD NOT be used for data services such as APIs or feeds. Data services including APIs and feeds SHOULD be described using instances of type dcat:DataService whose sub-class dcat:DataDistributionService MAY serve dcat:Distributions.
Links between a dcat:Distribution and services or web addresses where it can be accessed are expressed using dcat:accessURL, dcat:accessService, dcat:downloadURL, as shown in Figure 1 and described in the definitions below.