Consolidated ChangeLog
This Changelog provides an overview of the changes incorporated in DCAT-AP HVD 3.0.0. A complete list of the issues closed with this release is accessible on GitHub.
Editorial Changes
- Resolve spelling mistakes.
- Improve captions on figures.
Adaptations to the Different Sections
- Remove “This section is non-normative” from Conformance section.
- Update Section 9 the usage note on HVD Categories to use the most detailed level.
- Update Section 10 with extended insights on the mapping from HVD IR to DCAT-AP.
- Add Section 10.1.1 with guidelines on the use of Dataset Series.
- Update Section 10.3 the usage note on HVD Categories to use the most detailed level.
- Add Section 10.5.1 with guidelines on mapping licences to EU NAL Licencea.
- Include a Section 10.8 on the obligation to provide an API and how this can be expressed in DCAT-AP (HVD).
- Reword the Section 10.9 on reporting to align with the most recent recommendations on the Common HVD Reporting.
- Add in the Section 11 an example of the HVD Categories.
- Update Section 12 on validation with improved and more SHACL templates.
Data Model Adaptations
- Align min and max cardinalities with advice on mandatory, recommendation, and optional in the Quick Reference.
- Add the suggestion of sharing a self-declaration of conformity to the usage note of dct:conformsTo.
- Perform alignment with DCAT-AP 3.
- Include Dataset Series explicitly with the possibility to annotate this as a HVD Dataset.
- Property documentation for Data Service has been introduced in DCAT-AP 3 and thus it is used here instead of added in the context of this specification.
- Align the reuse column of properties in line with DCAT-AP 3.0.0.
Detailed Issue Feedback
- Issue 177, 247: Range of locn:geometry is locn:Geometry.
- Issue 321: HVD reporting guidelines are being presented to the community. References are added to the text.
- Issue 322: Self-declaration of conformity is added as a possibility. Yet a standardized data format has not been added, that will be done upon request of the community.
- Issue 325, 376, 378, 396: More explanation, usage notes, and guidelines are being added to the specifications to clarify the strong recommendation for a distribution.
- Issue 375: Improved examples with addition hvdCategory + checked against the provided validation SHACL rules.
- Issue 351: Terminology clarification provided.
- Issue 350, 381, 382, 383: Editorial bug fixes.
- Bugfix validation: The Distribution shape was pointing to non-existing constraints.
- Adapted the reference to the HVD IR reporting guidelines.