Source ID: external_dcat3_2024
Title: Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) — Version 3
URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/
Observed date: 2026-10-30
Read depth: Abstract/status; new features; versioning introduction and selected version-property discussion
Locator: §11 Versioning; status lines 43–61
Evidence type: authored paraphrase of inspected source, not a source snapshot

Supported claim: DCAT 3 adds distribution checksums, version relationships and dataset series. It distinguishes a dataset from its distributed files and describes revised resources in a version chain.

Limit: The study draws design guidance; it does not claim a complete RDF/DCAT-conformant implementation. Version metadata cannot recover a webpage state never captured.
