Specifing the used standard (conformsTo)

[coret]

For the Aggregating Linked Data in Europeana MVP we need to be able to specify on which standard/model/ontology a distribution is based (eg. https://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/EDM.xsd). This property differs from dct:format / schema:encodingFormat where you specify the format like application/rdf+xml.

A suitable DCAT property would be dct:conformsTo. As mentioned in DCAT-AP to Schema.org Mapping, the property schema:publishingPrinciples would be the nearest Schema.org property.

We need to include this property in the requirements (recommended, cardinality 0..n), adjust the SHACL and adapt the crawler (conversion & storing).

[ddeboer]

Agreed. Note that the DKG currently discovers this property, exposing it as void:vocabulary, but on the level of the dataset, not the distribution. In other words, this implies supporting different vocabularies per distribution.

[EnnoMeijers]

In the example that Europeana shared with an identifier for the EDM was used including its definition:

<http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/>  
  a dct:Standard .

Should we consider using a blank node for dct:conformsTo to include also the definition or do we assume this value to always be of type dct:Standard?

[ddeboer]

According to the spec, dct:conformsTo includes instead of has range dct:Standard, so adding it explicitly would add meaning.

[coret]

Note that the DKG currently discovers this property, exposing it as void:vocabulary,

I think dct:conformsTo / schema:publishingPrinciples is broader than vocabulary (which can only be applied to linked data).