[dxwg] Improve discovery of datacatalogs by registering well-known suffix 'datacatalog' (#1290)

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== Improve discovery of datacatalogs by registering well-known suffix 'datacatalog' ==
[RFC 5785](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785) defines a mechanism for reserving 'well-known' URIs on any Web server. By registering the 'datacatalog' suffix and promoting its use, the discovery of datacatalogs can be improved. 

Although this proposal is not **DCAT** specific (eg. schema.org/DataCatalog would also benefit), [we](https://github.com/netwerk-digitaal-erfgoed/) do seek support of the DCAT community for this proposal (as well as the schema.org community, therefor a similar issue has been posted at https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg).

We have drafted a text which could be included in a specification document (this is highly inspired by https://www.w3.org/TR/void/#well-known):

> **Discovery with well-known URI**
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> The [RFC 5785](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785) defines a mechanism for reserving 'well-known' URIs on any Web server. 
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> The URI /.well-known/datacatalog on any Web server is registered by this specification for a datacatalog with dataset descriptions of datasets hosted on that server.  For example, on the host www.example.com, this URI would be http://www.example.com/.well-known/datacatalog.
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> This URI may be an HTTP redirect to the location of the actual datacatalog file. The most appropriate HTTP redirect code is 302. Clients accessing this well-known URI MUST handle HTTP redirects.
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> The datacatalog file accessible via the well-known URI should contain descriptions of all datasets hosted on the server. This includes any datasets that have resolvable URIs, a SPARQL endpoint, a data dump, or any other access mechanism whose URI is on the server's hostname. Datacatalogs can be described using [http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#Catalog](http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#Catalog) or [https://schema.org/DataCatalog](https://schema.org/DataCatalog).

Broad support for this proposal will help in getting the 'datacatalog' suffix registered. The registration procedure and template from Section 5.1 of [RFC 5785](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785) requires a change controller and specification document. Can this community assist in this process?


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