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Should dcat:resource be subproperty of rdfs:member? #1483

Closed riccardoAlbertoni closed 2 years ago

riccardoAlbertoni commented 2 years ago

I have noticed that dcat:catalog, dcat:service, and dcat:dataset are all defined as subproperties of rdfs:member in the TTL. The recently added dcat:resource which is the super-property of the above is not.

Should we define dcat:resource subproperty of rdfs:member ?

rdfs:member is never mentioned in the DCAT HTML, should we add it to dcat:catalog, dcat:service, and dcat:dataset and dcat:resource or delete its occurences from the RDF?

dr-shorthair commented 2 years ago

rdfs:member is a pretty obscure element from RDFS. In fact if you read the documentation it is not fully clear if it should be subclassed, and I'm not sure that I've seen it done anywhere else. for example skos:member is not a sub-property.

Probably remove it.

andrea-perego commented 2 years ago

@dr-shorthair said:

rdfs:member is a pretty obscure element from RDFS. In fact if you read the documentation it is not fully clear if it should be subclassed, and I'm not sure that I've seen it done anywhere else. for example skos:member is not a sub-property.

Probably remove it.

I concur. Let's remove it.

agbeltran commented 2 years ago

I also agree with removing this restriction, note that there was a previous issue about relaxing the constraints on dcat:service (https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1363) and there was also a suggestion (by @dr-shorthair ) on removing the subproperty constraint with rdfs:member https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1363#issuecomment-844806375

andrea-perego commented 2 years ago

Statements making dcat:catalog, dcat:dataset, and dcat:service sub-properties of rdfs:member have been removed via PR https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/pull/1482