Re: [dxwg] Profiles are "named collections of properties" or metadata terms (if not RDF) [ID41] (5.41) (#275)

I very much agree about "properties" and am struggling to find a better word or phrase:

- vocabulary terms (which could include classes)
- data elements (rather old-fashioned but could also include classes)
- data terms (Singapore framework uses "metadata terms" - "data terms" sounds odd to me)
- elements from selected vocabularies or ontologies - longer, but also doesn't address whether one can define new elements with in vocabulary, which also has come up in the past.

I get the desire to speak of "data" as well as "metadata" but I wouldn't want to confound a profile with the instance data in a dataset, such as statistical data. The profile is not instance data (except of the profile itself, but that seems tautological), but a set of terms and constraints that are used to create instance data that usually has a descriptive role. 

Maybe we need to define data and metadata?

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