Fix usage note for Distribution's conformsTo property and provide more clarity on documenting format metadata would be helpful.

[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 conformsTo property

Issue:

• Substantive Comment: The usage note says "This property refers to a page or document about this Data Service," which doesn't seem to make sense for this field. We presume that this is a placeholder that was copied/pasted and never replaced with the correct content.

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

• Proposed Disposition: Replacement or clarification of the sentence in question.

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

[fellahst]

• Modified title "linked schemas" to "conforms to"
• Fixed usage note
• Added clarification note
• Updated JSON-LD

[fellahst]

Do we want to constraint cardinality to 0..1 (used in DCAT US 1,1) instead of 0..n. Do we have use cases for multiple standards for a single distribution (maybe alternate identifiers for standards)?

[ShaferAC]

+1; It might be beneficial to have the cardinality as 0...n in case there are distribution methods that utilize multiple standards.

[mrratcliffe]

+1 I agree with Allison's comment above... beneficial to have cardinality as 0...n

[fellahst]

Cardinality for dcterms:conformsTo remains to 0..n