Towards a stable proposal for Vocab conformance in BP doc

Hi Phil, all
Just to follow up re vocab conformance statement to be included in BP 
document.

This proposal is based on what we have on DCAT spec (conformance 
section) that I tried to be more generic.  As you mentioned on the call 
today, this one sees to be an old version when we were debating back to 
September, 2012. [1]

### Proposal for Vocabulary conformance ###
[[
A set of classes and properties *conform* to a {GIVEN-VOCAB} if:
It reuses *all* the mandatory terms defined.
It follows entirely the scope and objectives of the {GIVEN-VOCAB} .
The contents of all metadata fields that are included in the RDF 
description, are expressed using the appropriate classes and properties 
from the {GIVEN-VOCAB}, except where no such class or property exists.

All classes and properties defined in {GIVEN-VOCAB} are used in a way 
consistent with the semantics declared in its specification.
{GIVEN-VOCAB}-compliant may include additional non-{GIVEN-VOCAB} 
metadata fields and additional RDF data in the RDF description.
A profile for the {GIVEN-VOCAB}  is a specification fthat adds 
additional constraints to it .
A dataset that conforms to the profile also conforms to the 
{GIVEN-VOCAB}. Additional constraints in a profile may include:
	A minimum set of required metadata fields
	Classes and properties for additional metadata fields not covered in 
the {GIVEN-VOCAB}
	Controlled vocabularies or URI sets as acceptable values for properties
]]

Thanks for your input to come up with a more updated version.

Cheers,
Ghislain

[1] http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/07/conformance_for_vocabularies.html
[2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html#conformance
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Received on Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:44:54 UTC