DCAT: Distribution - Suggestion attribute for record – ‘LicenseattributionByText’

[init-dcat-ap-de]

Def: An auxiliary to save mandatory attribution license texts.

Datatyp: rdfs:Literal

Reasoning for change: attribution licenses require an information of how to quote correctly the attribution. This information was added to the dcatde: namespace -> this property should be added to the W3C DCAT.

[akuckartz]

Same :-1: comment as in #39 regarding range rdfs:Literal

[makxdekkers]

@init-OGD This is indeed information that would be useful to provide with attribution-type licences. In this case, I don't see a problem with a range of rdfs:Literal. As you note, it is an issue that could be considered by W3C in the process of revising DCAT. You are very welcome to make this comment by sending a message to public-dxwg-comments@w3.org, or by creating an issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg.

[DGatt]

Another way of resolving the issue it to define a few properties of the RightsStatement on the distribution level (with the help of ODRS)

attributionText attributionURL copyrightNotice copyrightStatement copyrihtHolder copyrightYear

[makxdekkers]

@DGatt When you write "define a few properties of the RightsStatement on the distribution level", do you mean that those properties would be defined as properties of the Distribution? E.g. a triple like:

<Distribution-001> <odrs:attributionText> "Some text"

This is not the way ODRS envisages this. ODRS makes odrs:attributionText a property of odrs:RightsStatement, which is, according to the RDF schema, a sub-class of dct:RightsStatement.

So, it looks like the solution can be applied without changes to the specification. After all, dct:rights is specified in DCAT-AP as an optional property for dcat:Distribution, so it can already be used to link to an odrs:RightsStatement.

[makxdekkers]

Proposed resolution | No change to the specification.

[addragan]

The issue will be closed and no changes will be done to the specification.