"publisher" tag can be simplified by making it an heirarchical array.

[rrmishra]

publisher: ["Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies", "General Services Administration", "U.S. Government"]

This is much easier to parse than the current schema. You will appreciate my concerns, If you have tried to model a parent-child relationship in a relational database table.

[philipashlock]

There doesn't seem to be anything hierarchical about that and I'm not sure I understand what's challenging about parsing hierarchical relationships in JSON.

The current proposal in v1.1 (see #296) is intended to be more explicit about these relationships and to align with the DCAT definition which recommends foaf:Agent which means we can use org:subOrganizationOf to describe the hierarchical relationship.

Specifying a hierarchical relationship is totally optional though.

If you have additional feedback related to the updates to the publisher field, would you mind adding it to #296 instead?

[gbinal]

This issue was moved over to #296. Closing.