Re: [dxwg] property profileOfTransitive

@makxdekkers Thanks, I realize that this thread has taken quite a turn! The "conformance implementation" is based on terminology in the profiles ontology and I believe it simply means what you say above, which is some code or machine-actionable document that can implement the constraints in the profile. But the main question I am asking is: is DCAT-AP itself (the document of that name) consistent with the definition of prof:Profile?

The first question is "what is a prof:Profile"? The second is: Must a profile include actionable conformance? Obviously, one answer hinges on the other. (Another wording: does _conformance_ here mean actionable code, or can it mean _described verbally but not itself actionable_?)

If I have X-AP which is a document much like DCAT-AP, but I have no conformance _code_, is X-AP a profile by the definition in profilesOnt? 

I'm trying to clarify the [statement above](https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/486#issuecomment-435298860) that says: _I dont think it makes sense to talk about specifications or standards or profiles without an assumption of conformance._ followed by my question of whether DCAT-AP (the PDF document with that title) can be used in a profilesOnt statement:

<iri for DCAT-AP.pdf> prof:profileOf <iri for DCAT>

or if the subject of that triple must be an IRI for a profilesOnt structure, as in the various diagrams.

All of this is triggered by the interaction [above](https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/486#issuecomment-435324394):

_@kcoyle “...if something like the DCAT-AP PDF can be considered a profile...”_

_According to Profiels Ont it wouldn’t be, it would be the artifact of a Resource Descriptor. See the on point example: https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/profilesont/#eg-dcat-ap_

That was where my confusion began. And now I probably have added to yours. But it is needed to clarify how the profiles ontology can be used and how strict it is in defining "profile".

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