Use of dcat:Resource for SemanticArtefact

[djo011]

Hi!

In our context, we would like to make our data available through a shared data catalog at the national level. However if we want to register a dataset, SemanticArtefact in our case, the standard(DCAT-AP_NO) expects dcat:Dataset, not dcat:Resource. We therefore wondered what was the reason for SemanticArtefact being a subclass of dcat:Resource?

In addition we also wondered about the connection between SemanticArtefact and SemanticArtefactDistribution? From the diagram 1 in D4.3 Fair impact deliverable, we could not observe any connection between these two.

[jonquet]

Hello @djo011
For the first question see: FAIR-IMPACT/MOD#34
My preference was to explicitly type a mod:SemanticArtefact as an dcat:Dataset but we decided to keep it by inference only (not direct subclassing but the fact of using the property dcat:distribution makes it a dcat:Dataset)
Hence line https://github.com/FAIR-IMPACT/MOD/blob/main/mod.ttl#L371

Related to the notion of distribution you can also have a look at: FAIR-IMPACT/MOD#35
Indeed without explicitly tagging mod:SemanticArtefact as an dcat:Dataset the connexion does not appear.
Maybe @mariapoveda could complete.