Consolidated ChangeLog
This Changelog provides an overview of the changes incorporated in DCAT-AP HVD 3.0.1. A list of open issues is accessible on GitHub.
Editorial Changes
- Resolve spelling mistakes, including changing “High Value datasets” to “High-Value datasets”
- Dark mode support
- Change overview to SVG
- Fix examples - syntax,
dcat:downloadURL in Bulk download example
- Fix links from
DataService.rights and DataService.licence to Article 3.2 instead of 3.3
- Add a note about validating shapes concerning controlled vocabularies
- Update the editors, Interoperable Europe representatives and collaborating Directorate-General in the Acknowledgments
- Fix typos
- Add a Datatypes section
- Add the
eli prefix
- JSON-LD context made consistent with other SEMIC specifications
Adaptations to the Different Sections
- Align the specification with DCAT-AP 3.0.1. Update the corresponding references and reuse links. Older DCAT-AP versions are not supported anymore.
- Change the HVD data category guidance from RECOMMENDED to MUST for annotating datasets and APIs with the most precise applicable HVD category concept. This is a normative change
- Update the Scope section to mention GeoDCAT-AP and StatDCAT-AP
- Change the Scope example of a requirement that DCAT-AP cannot verify from licence permissiveness to identifier persistence
- Remove Meeting minutes subsection containing links to the 2023 webinars
Data Model Adaptations
- Add Dataset
title and description attributes, as they are required for the HVD reporting, and add usage notes specifying the requirement on their English versions
- Add Data Service
title making the existing mandatory DCAT-AP property explicit in this profile, with range rdf:langString and reuse qualification E
- Add Dataset Series
title and description with range rdf:langString
- Change Dataset title and description range to
rdf:langString to support auto-translation activities
- Add Distribution
downloadURL (dcat:downloadURL), mandatory for Distributions representing HVD bulk downloads (for the HVD reporting), not for Distributions providing API access
- Update the Distribution
access URL usage note to cover bulk downloads and change its reuse qualification from A to E
- Add LicenceDocument
as permissive as and more permissive than properties for mapping to the EU Vocabularies Licences NAL, add the NAL to Controlled Vocabularies
- Explicitly added
owl:sameAs as a Licence mapping option
- Remove the supportive class Literal
DataService.endpointDescription made mandatory, according to Article 3.3 of the HVD IR
SHACL Validation Changes
- Add English-language title and description checks for Dataset, with severity Warning
- Added CV shape explicitly validating for expected licence or licence mapping usage
- Add Data Service title validation shapes
- Update Dataset and Dataset Series title and description shapes
- Update download URL validation shapes
- Relaxed bulk download presence check to give Warning, not Violation
- Removed unnecessary shapes checking for instances of
rdfs:Resource
- Tightened validation of URLs (endpoint, download, access, etc.) not to allow blank nodes
- Change the prefix used for the Dublin Core Terms namespace from
dc to dct
- SHACL ShapesGraphs now follow SHACL 1.2 Profiling Packaging recommendation draft
- Added SHACL shape checking that the most granular HVD category is used. It requires the HVD category controlled vocabulary loaded in the data graph.
- Added SHACL shape enforcing that a Distribution represents either an API (has
dcat:accessService), or a bulk download (has dcat:downloadURL), not both.
DataService.endpointDescription made mandatory, according to Article 3.3 of the HVD IR- Missing
DataService.contactPoint check results in Violation
- Removed
rdfs:seeAlso, skos:broadMatch and skos:closeMatch from licence mapping alternatives
Detailed Issue Feedback
- Issue 460,
Dataset.datasetdistribution cardinality - explained why it is recommended and 0..*
- Issue 461, missing
inseries <<optional>> qualification in diagram
- Issue 463, missing reference to DCAT-AP for Dataset Series
- Issue 459, missing contact point for Dataset in diagram
- Issue 462,
DatasetSeries.HVDcategory definition fix
- Issue 482,
High Value datasets changed to High-Value datasets
- Issue 487, add note about illustrativeness of INSPIRE ELI
- Issue 492, change
DataService.title reuse qualification to E
- Issue 493, better explain the reporting requirement on titles and description in English
- Issue 494, add Dataset Series
title and description
- Issue 497, fix license document
more permissive than property