- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 14:44:21 -0800
- To: Ruben Verborgh <Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be>
- Cc: "public-dxwg-wg@w3.org" <public-dxwg-wg@w3.org>, "mail@makxdekkers.com" <mail@makxdekkers.com>
On 12/6/17 2:28 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: >> Unfortunately, the majority case appears to be that profiles are not >> created by coders. A look at the current generation of profiles shows >> that they are Word or PDF documents, most likely written by folks who >> are knowledgeable of the semantics of their community's metadata but who >> do not themselves write code. > > They can keep on writing Word and PDF documents; > but we cannot expect all of them to write RDF documents. > > So they might be able to define profiles in human-readable ways, > but not necessarily the formal specifications to validate them. Actually,this is the advantage of CVSW - Most of them can understand and use spreadsheets, and from those spreadsheets the CVSW -> JSON-LD/RDF works. The idea is to give those folks a transitional technology, not to leave them in the dust. In my mind, these are the primary audience for application profiles. kc > > Best, > > Ruben > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 (Signal) skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
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