[dxwg] Alejandra's profiles ont doc edits

nicholascar has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/dxwg:

== Alejandra's profiles ont doc edits ==
The last paragraph of the introduction mentions:

"Base Specifications (a Standard not profiling any other Standard)"

However, the definition and the ontology indicate that BaseSpecification is a subClass of Profile:

https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/profilesont/#Class:BaseSpecification

The ontology goes further to indicate a cardinality restriction, indicating that BaseSpecifications won't be associated with any Profile through the 'isProfileOf' relationship:

```
:BaseSpecification rdf:type owl:Class ;
                   rdfs:subClassOf :Profile ,
                                   [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
                                     owl:onProperty :isProfileOf ;
                                     owl:maxCardinality "0"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger
                                   ] ;
                   rdfs:label "Base Specification" ;
                   skos:definition "A specification that defines all implementation constraints, without applying constraints on usage of another specification"@en ;
                   skos:usageNote "This may not be a useful class: documents of any specification can be regarded as a trivial profile, so applications only need to be concerned with Profile conformance"@en .
```

I know this is representing 'trivial profiles', as any spec can be a profile of itself. However, I think we should make clearer the 'differentiae' between Standard/BaseSpecification/Profiles. I know that there have been lots of discussions on this and, moreover, that the note indicates that the class might not be useful. 

So, I suggest we add an issue in github to address this discussion and that the FPWD points to this new issue to allow for further comments.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/571 using your GitHub account

Received on Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:24:06 UTC