It's unclear how exactly Distribution's 'access rights' property interacts with 'license' and 'rights' (as well as 'accessRestriction', 'useRestriction', and 'cuiRestriction')

[sofianef]

Name: Carrie Comstock

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

Type of issue: Schema, Editorial

Section # / Table #: 5.18.3 Distribution's access rights property

Issue:

• Substantive Comment: It's unclear how exactly this interacts with 'license' and 'rights' (as well as 'accessRestriction', 'useRestriction', and 'cuiRestriction'). There's some documentation in DCAT 3.0 related to how some of the fields work together, but it's unclear whether DCAT-US 3.0 is aligned here.

• Rationale: Clarity on documenting legal metadata would be helpful.

• Proposed Disposition: Clarification of which fields are appropriate in which circumstances.

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

[hkdctol]

P1 for discussion since it wasn't clear to me either

[fellahst]

A section for legal metadata in usage guideline has been added in the specification. This section can be used as starting point for discussion and review by legal experts.

[mrratcliffe]

+1