W3C

– DRAFT –
DXWG DCAT subgroup

05 April 2022

Attendees

Present
AndreaPerego, DaveBrowning, riccardoAlbertoni
Regrets
-
Chair
riccardoAlbertoni
Scribe
DaveBrowning

Meeting minutes

<riccardoAlbertoni> PROPOSED: approve last meeting minutes https://www.w3.org/2022/03/22-dxwgdcat-minutes

<riccardoAlbertoni> PROPOSED: approve last meeting minutes https://www.w3.org/2022/03/22-dxwgdcat-minutes

<riccardoAlbertoni> +1

approve last meeting minutes

<AndreaPerego> +1

0 (not there)

RESOLUTION: approve last meeting minutes https://www.w3.org/2022/03/22-dxwgdcat-minutes

Pending PRs

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/pull/1487,

riccardoAlbertoni: Some conflict/inconsistencies have come up in this PR
… due to multiple PRs active at same time
… Not clear what the root of the problem is

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/pull/1500

riccardoAlbertoni: Further work to day has produced a new branch that seems to address the problem

riccardoAlbertoni: On the substance of the changes, the aim was to harmonize the use of example name spaces
… Looks like RDF is now consistent. Fixing the html to save the changes in the main branch is a bit harder. Not sure of Alejandra's plan (did try to contact a couple of days ago)
… We could publish now as is and address inconsistencies after publication

<AndreaPerego> +1 from me.

riccardoAlbertoni: or try to address the clashes now (and delay publication).
… or followup with Alejandra

AndreaPerego: This shouldn't block publication - if we can address in time then okay, but it isn't urgent

DaveBrowning: Rather publish and address any tidying up afterword

riccardoAlbertoni: we should do a resolution...

proposed: Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is

<AndreaPerego> +1

<riccardoAlbertoni> +1

proposed: Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is, with some tidying up to be done in parallel to review

<AndreaPerego> +1

+

+1

RESOLUTION: Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is, with some tidying up to be done later

<riccardoAlbertoni> +1

<AndreaPerego> +1

+1

riccardoAlbertoni: I'll contact Alejandra and also liaise with Peter/Caroline

RESOLUTION: Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is, with some tidying up to be done later

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1322

AndreaPerego: this originally raised a year ago, but subsequently became more active very recently
… Originally we weren't sure if this was a broad requirement but there now seems to be more interest. Not a candidate for the WD, but higher priority after this

AndreaPerego: Issue raises again the relationship between DCAT and CSVW or DataCube (e.g.)
… should DXWG take a position on how we align with other standards (esp W3C ones)

riccardoAlbertoni: Interesting when we have technical constraints in related standards and how much we help out

AndreaPerego: Raises some questions whether DCAT datasets and (e.g.) RDF DataCube datasets are the same. Datacube and CSVW quite close to the actual data
… Perhaps closer to distributions.... Needs some wider discussion.

riccardoAlbertoni: Not sure we are in the position where we can say e.g. all RDF DataCube are DCAT distributions...

AndreaPerego: May be some more natural alignment with dataseries and slices in DataCube but not straightforward

AndreaPerego: This is difficult to generalise and unclear quite what it would mean in other examples.
… It does feel that we should make some clearer statement
… but we need to decide what that is

riccardoAlbertoni: Agreed. It is difficult to separate the metadata from data in a general way....

riccardoAlbertoni: Enough for tonight

+2

Summary of resolutions

  1. approve last meeting minutes https://www.w3.org/2022/03/22-dxwgdcat-minutes
  2. Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is, with some tidying up to be done later
  3. Recommend publication of existing ED as last WD as is, with some tidying up to be done later
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