More information needed about the usage of Dataset's metadata distribution property

[sofianef]

Name: Carrie Comstock

Affiliation: USEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), Cummings.Carrie@EPA.gov

Type of issue: Schema, Editorial

Section # / Table #: 5.16.3 Dataset's metadataDistribution property

Issue:

• Substantive Comment: According to the documentation, this field is the "distribution to 'original' metadata document". We aren't sure what information should go within this field or how this field is supposed to be utilized.

• Rationale: We need more information about its usage.

• Proposed Disposition: Clarification of Guidance

Original email submission: USEPA-ScienceHub-FAIRness.Project.-.DCAT-US-3-AP.-.Comment.Review.Matrix.xlsx

[hkdctol]

this issue through 165 -- if it's a matter of providing some usage notes we should discuss what they should be and add them

[fellahst]

The DCAT-US 3.0 profile introduces a new dcat-us:metadataDistribution property on dcat:Dataset with range dcat:Distribution class with properties mandatory properties:

dcat:downloadURL dcterms:title dcat: mediaType - the encoding of the source metadata (e.g., XML, JSON, other) dcterms: conformsTo - reference to schema specification/ standard for the source metadata

[TDabolt]

For implementation - Agencies may need to spend more time understanding new concepts introduced in DCAT 3.0