Extension dct:availability

[l00mi]

Property: dct:availability
Class: dcat:Dataset
Implementation: implemented as a CV with a list tbd, (e.g. Testing, Draft, Published).

Conformance: For real world applications it is important to quickly understand at which maturity level dataset is published to quickly decide if it can be used in a (data-) project. The goal is to provide a data provider statement regard the maturity of the provided dataset. With the goal to also allow to quickly distribute testing and draft dataset for early feedback and to allow an overall agile data modelling process. This is a non-normative extension to the current DCAT.

[sabinem]

@l00mi I think some explantion is needed to distinguish this from dcatap:availability: see here for the proposed values: these also sound kind of like maturity levels to me: SEMICeu/DCAT-AP#190 (comment)

[l00mi]

I am open for any suggestion, there should be two aspects encoded from a data consumer:

• What is the current state of the dataset -> so far called maturity
• How long is planned to keep this state available -> so far called availability

[l00mi]

For reference we start using https://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/planned-availability for now with dct:availability but will use it on the Dataset for now.

[metaodi]

This already exists in DCAT 2.0 on a distribution level (https://dcat-ap.ch/releases/2.0/dcat-ap-ch.html#distribution-availability), is the proposal to add this on a dataset as well?

[l00mi]

That was the main idea. But this can be reflected, the problem is that I see a different statement in, a distributions availability and the overall dataset. But it can also be reasoned, that the datasets availability is at least the one of the "highest" distribution availability.

Also there might be another interaction with https://semiceu.github.io/DCAT-AP/releases/3.0.0/#Distribution.status in the future.