Re: [dxwg] Defining validation

On the more general thread: I agree it's appropriate to distinguish validation actions vs validation rules. It may be splitting hair actually too, but it may bring some useful modeling for the profile ontology.

I'm less sure about constraint vs validation rules. In fact OWL constraints do "constrain the set of possibilities", it's just that they do it in an open world and that is quite different from constraining data in a a closed world. Maybe we can refer to 'validation' for checking rules in a closed world, and 'constraint checking' for the action of checking rules without any assumption about the openness. But it will probably conflict with other terminology.

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