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And a small change to remove the word 'draft' in the intro, so it remains accurate for CR/PR/REC (hopefully.)
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Since the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-vocab-dcat-2-20180508/">First Public Working Draft</a>, the main changes to the DCAT vocabulary have been:</p>
This document defines a major revision of the original DCAT vocabulary ([[?VOCAB-DCAT-20140116]]) in response to new use cases, requirements and community experience since that publication. This revision extends the original DCAT standard in line with community practice while supporting diverse approaches to data description and dataset exchange.
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<li>loosening of constraints in class and property definitions to promote re-use of terms and modularity</li>
<li>addition of a <a href="#Class:Resource"><code>dcat:Resource</code></a> class for representing any asset than can be included in the catalog, this is
now the super-class of <a href="#Class:Dataset"><code>dcat:Dataset</code></a></li>
<li>addition of <a href="#Class:Data_Service"><code>dcat:DataService</code></a>, as a sub-class of <a href="#Class:Resource"><code>dcat:Resource</code></a>, to support catalog service end-points providing access to data assets</li>
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The detailed differences between the two documents can be seen <a href="https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2018%2FWD-vocab-dcat-2-20180508%2F&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2018%2FWD-vocab-dcat-2-20181011%2F">here</a>.
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 relevent github issues) is described in <a href="#changes"></a>.
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<a href="https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Adcat+">Issues, requirements, and features</a> 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 <a href="https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/milestone/15">DCAT Future Priority Work</a>.
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<p>The original Recommendation [[?VOCAB-DCAT-20140116]] published in January 2014 provided the basic framework for describing datasets. It made an important distinction between a <i>dataset</i> as an abstract idea and a <i>distribution</i> as a manifestation of the dataset. Although DCAT has been widely adopted, it has become clear that the original specification lacked a number of essential features that were added either through the mechanism of a profile, such as the European Commission's DCAT-AP [[?DCAT-AP]], or the development of larger vocabularies that to a greater or lesser extent built upon the base standard, such as the Healthcare and Life Sciences Community Profile [[?HCLS-Dataset]], the Data Tag Suite [[?DATS]] and more. This revision of DCAT has been developed to address the specific shortcomings that have come to light through the experiences of different communities, the aim being to improve interoperability between the outputs of these larger vocabularies.
For example, in this new DCAT version we provide classes, properties and guidance to address <a href="#dereferenceable-identifiers">identifiers</a>, <a href="#quality-information">dataset quality information</a>, and <a href="#data-citation">data citation</a> issues.</p>
<p>This draft includes re-writing of the specification throughout. Significant changes from the 2014 Recommendation are marked within the text using "Note" sections, as well as being described in <a href="#changes"></a>.</p>
<p>This revision includes re-writing of the specification throughout. Significant changes from the 2014 Recommendation are marked within the text using "Note" sections, as well as being described in <a href="#changes"></a>.</p>

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