ISSUE-38: Drop dcat:accessUrl, use the URI of the dcat:Download resource instead

whyAccessUrl

Drop dcat:accessUrl, use the URI of the dcat:Download resource instead

State:

CLOSED

Product:

dcat

Raised by:

Ed Summers

Opened on:

2010-05-27

Description:

Raised by Ed Summers:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2010May/0056.html

I must admit I am a little bit perplexed by the use of dcat:accessUrl to describe a dcat:Download. The usage note indicates that:

"""
accessUrl of the Download distribution should be a direct download link (a one-click access to the data file).
"""

It makes me wonder if we should instead be recommending that the URI for the dcat:Download be the actual URI for the download. So for example:

ex:dataset1 a dcat:Dataset ;
dcat:distribution ex:download1 .

ex:download1 a dcat:Download ;
dcat:accessURL <http://example.gov/downloads/1> ;
dct:format "text/csv" .

would become:

ex:dataset1 a dcat:Dataset ;
dcat:distribution <http://example.gov/downloads/1> .

<http://example.gov/downloads/1> dct:format "text/csv" .

See how the intermediary resource (probably a blank node in practice) goes away? I think the same could be said of dcat:Feed.

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1. RE: ISSUE-38 (whyAccessUrl): Drop dcat:accessUrl, use the URI of the dcat:Download resource instead [dcat] (from fadi.maali@deri.org on 2010-06-01)
2. ISSUE-38 (whyAccessUrl): Drop dcat:accessUrl, use the URI of the dcat:Download resource instead [dcat] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-05-27)

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