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Type in class distribution #107

Closed idevisser closed 4 years ago

idevisser commented 4 years ago

In the case a service has not specific separate service metadata, it is needed to have in the distribution class more information about the type off the accessURL, like is it a view or download or OGC:WFS or OGC:WMS etc. In DCAT it looks like a type property is added in the distribution to support this;

dct:type https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/SpatialDataServiceType/view

bertvannuffelen commented 4 years ago

@idevisser this the intention of a dcat:DataService. I think we should take the alignment to DCAT 2.0 as an opportunity to reconsider our thinking on datasets and distributions, taking into account the existence of data services. The idea that a distribution is a REST, SPARQL or WFS service is more DCAT 1.0. (There was no alternative, and it was never satisfactory.) In DCAT 2.0 the preferred usage would consider them as data services offering access to one or more datasets. In that line of thought, distributions become more static snapshots as a file dump.

bertvannuffelen commented 4 years ago

resolution: feedback provided

bertvannuffelen commented 4 years ago

resolution: more discussions on data services are foreseen