Comments regarding EARL 1.0 (Working Draft 23 March 2007)

Hi,


We have been involved in developing conformance test suites for 
various OGC <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> standards and have 
been investigating the use of the EARL vocabulary. 

Here are a couple of comments regarding the latest draft.


1. Test results summary

It would be useful to include a summary of test verdicts along the 
following lines, where the properties are all of type 
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#nonNegativeInteger".

<earl:TestResultsSummary>
  <earl:totalPass>45</earl:totalPass>
  <earl:totalFail>14</earl:totalFail>
  <earl:totalNotTested>8<earl:totalNotTested>
  <earl:totalNotApplicable>10<earl:totalNotApplicable>
  <earl:totalCannotTell>2<earl:totalCannotTell>
</earl:TestResultsSummary>


This would enable a "brief" view of the results of a test run that 
omits detailed assertions.


2. Use of dct:hasVersion

I understand that this DCMI term refines dc:relation. So the value 
should be a resource, not a plain literal as shown in all examples.

<http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#hasVersion>


Perhaps define <earl:version> for this purpose.



Regards,

--
Richard