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Change to dcat:Distribution definition and note #735

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Should we also mention the idea of "informationally equivalent". I suggest adding this to the Note:

"In some cases all distributions of a dataset will be fully informationally equivalent, in the sense that lossless transformations between the representations are possible. An example would be different serializations of an RDF graph using RDF/XML, Turtle, N3, JSON-LD. However, in other cases the distributions might have different levels of fidelity to the underlying data. For example, a graphical representation alongside a CSV file. The question of whether different representations can be understood to be distributions of the same dataset is use-case specific, so the judgement is the responsibility of the provider."

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thanks @dr-shorthair - it's been added

@agbeltran agbeltran requested a review from makxdekkers February 6, 2019 22:43
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I'll also remove the previous note that read:

"The definition text of dcat:Distribution has been revised to clarify that distributions are primarily representations of datasets. As such, all distributions of a given dataset should be informationally equivalent. "

@dr-shorthair dr-shorthair merged commit 3db2f84 into gh-pages Feb 6, 2019
@dr-shorthair dr-shorthair deleted the agb-distribution-definition branch February 6, 2019 22:57
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