Open jakubklimek opened 3 months ago
Based on the discussion in the webinar, Distribution usage note will be changed to
A character encoding used in the downloadable file or output of the data service represented by the Distribution.
There was a counterproposal for CatalogueRecord formulated: Drop character encoding
from CatalogueRecord, as in RDF, UTF-8 is always used for all data (which is not the case for XML). It was approved.
Problem statement In GeoDCAT-AP 2.0.0, the usage note of
character encoding
refers to the whole instance of the class on which it is used.For Catalogue Record:
For Distribution:
This is confusing, as it actually refers to:
foaf:primaryTopic
dcat:downloadURL
or findable usingdcat:accessURL
, or in the output of the data service linked usingdcat:accessService
Proposal Follow the pattern similar to the definition of
CatalogueRecord.language
in DCAT-AP sayingand change the definition to:
This may have also impact on the
Distribution.language
definition in DCAT-AP as it currently says simply