Repetition in vocabulary section

[davebrowning]

In rewiring the internal document links, I noticed we've been a little inconsistent within Ch 6 with repetition of the inherited properties for dcat:Catalog from its super-classes dcat:Resource and dcat:Dataset which we don't repeat in the parallel sections for dcat:Dataset and dcat:DataService. It would be easy to remove the duplicates most of the definitions/use e.g. title , description etc are identical though there are some usage notes that may require rewording to make sense such the various forms of the language property.

I think this is worth doing but wanted to ask if it considered and ruled out? (As a reader, duplicating in some places and not others without a visible rationale makes me worried I've missed something).

[agbeltran]

I expressed my view on this in the new issue I created (#718) having not seen this before. I think we have to remove the descriptions of the inherited properties to be consistent across the document. For the case of language, I would move the extra text when relevant to dcat:Resource. For example, it makes sense to add This refers to the language used in the textual metadata describing titles, descriptions, etc. of the resources (i.e. datasets and services) in the catalog. in the dcat:Resource bit (adpating the text when necessary).

I suggest addressing this after #717 has been merged, as it adds a few more properties to dcat:Resource.

[davebrowning]

Let me draft something and we can see if it passes muster - dcat:Resource currently reflects that language is the language of the data in the dcat:Dataset (or at least that's how I read the usage note here) so some similar text would apply to the data in the catalog (which just happens to be the textual metadata of the resources). Then there is services to consider...

At a tangent: should dct:spatial be moved to dcat:Resource as well? The meaning for dcat:Catalog seems the same as for dcat:Dataset - its some spatial/geographical characteristic of the contents in both cases? @dr-shorthair - was this considered or is it just a glitch? Perhaps its a stretch to apply this to services.

[davebrowning]

Actually, strike that last question - dcat:Catalog can inherit dct:spatial from dcat:Dataset. dcat:Resource doesn't need it