Carlos Iglesias

Clarification about the expected operational enviroment for DCAT-AP

I am a little bit confused about the overall DCAT-AP approach. Sometimes it looks like a full operational linked data enviroment is being assumed, such as in the IDs discussion thread , but other…

DCAT-AP examples

It would be good and enlightening for future producers and consumers if we could add an appendix to current documentation with some actual examples of DCAT-AP descriptions. Component Documentation…

Walk through cardinality of properties

Now we have cardinality for properties in draft 2 v0.03 I would like to arise some potential issues: - First a general question: should cardinality for non-mandatory properties always be in the 0..x…

Multilingual Aspects

Regarding Multilingual Aspects described at section 10 of draft 2 v0.03 It may be useful to clarify that it is a frequent best practice to always include an rdfs:label for which the language tag in…

Managing optional properties for foaf:Agent

foaf:Organization has been replaced by foaf:Agent in draft 2 v0.03 and now all other properties defined by FOAF for foaf:Agent can be used as optional properties. So a receiver MUST be able to handle…

Mandatory, recommended and optional redux

After some back and forth with mandatory, recommended, optional and minimal definitions, draft 2 v0.03 has changed the approach to distinguish mandatory, recommended and optional properties and there…

Document the use of other vocabularies and/or specifications

Now that DCAT AP draft_2_v0.03 allows properties from other specification than just DCAT (adms:contactPoint) that should be documented at section "1.2. Scope". Otherwise it may be confusing and…

Requirements for Controlled Vocabularies

Section 9 includes a table with several controlled vocabularies that MUST be used for the listed properties, but most of them are not dereferencable (some don't have public URIs and others always…

Excluded versus Optional classes

It is not clear what the definition of Excluded Classes is (section 6.3 draft 0.09), neither the criteria to "exclude" certain classes. In particular, what are the differences between Optional and…