GeoDCAT-AP icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
GeoDCAT-AP copied to clipboard

Removal of inverse properties

Open jakubklimek opened this issue 11 months ago • 1 comments

Problem statement DCAT 3 has a policy on usage of inverse properties, where the inverse properties may be used only in addition to the primary ones. In DCAT-AP 3.0, this was reflected by removal of the inverse properties from the profile. GeoDCAT-AP 2.0.0 includes the following inverse properties:

  • dct:isVersionOf, which was to be replaced with dcat:isVersionOf following the alignment with DCAT 3 and DCAT-AP 3.0, which is an inverse property
  • foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf is used in several examples. This may be to improve readability compared to the usage of foaf:primaryTopic, but may also be confusing and encourage usage of just the inverse property.

Proposal Follow the approach of DCAT-AP 3.0 and remove inverse properties from GeoDCAT-AP. Specifically:

  • deprecate dct:isVersionOf in favor of the new dcat:hasVersion (dct:hasVersion replacement) (#73)
  • change examples to use the primary foaf:primaryTopic

jakubklimek avatar Mar 03 '24 13:03 jakubklimek