Comments sought on The Profiles Vocabulary, W3C WG Note

Dear ESIP Colleagues,

The W3C’s Dataset Exchange Working Group has just released The Profiles Vocabulary, created “to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources” as a W3C Working Group Note [1] and we are inviting you to comment on it. 

**NOTE for ESPI relevance: I (Nick) am planning on using PROF to describe a Geological Structures or a Queensland profile of SWEET so that the parts needed by the Geological Survey of Queensland that I work for can be identified and described. Using PROF will allow me to describe the parts we need not as a separate ontology but as just a formal _profile_ of SWEET. Others might find this approach to using SWEET, since it;’s large and comprehensive, useful too.**

The Working Group is very interested in collecting feedback on this vocabulary from a wide range of standards organisations and practitioners since ‘profiles’ are a general and widely-used concept and many communities do profiling. The Note is not final yet, so it is certainly possible to influence its ultimate form.

If you would like to comment on the Note, please do so by emailing the WG’s public comments mailing list [2] (Reply All to this) or by creating an Issue in the WG’s Issue Tracker [3] by Friday, 7th of February 2020. If you do create GitHub Issues directly, please label them “profiles-vocabulary” and “feedback”.

We will attempt to respond to your comments either in the mailing list, GitHub Issues or both by Friday, 6th of March, 2020 and may then release an updated Note based on Feedback.

Regards,


Nicholas Car & Rob Atkinson

Editors, The Profiles Vocabulary

W3C’s Dataset Exchange Working Group

https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Main_Page <https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Main_Page>


[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/dx-prof/ <https://www.w3.org/TR/dx-prof/>

[2] public-dxwg-comments@w3.org <mailto:public-dxwg-comments@w3.org>

[3] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aprofiles-vocabulary <https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+label:profiles-vocabulary>