Re: Profile definition

Thanks Simon,

I was _aware_ of it - but its not yet clear to me whether the scope of
application profiles discussed there fully covers the requirements under
discussion here.

It would be great if Andrea or someone could provide a pointer to a formal
definition as settled on within this community (so far in discussions this
has not been offered as a straw man, and only the question "what is a
profile" has been raised.)

Rob


On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 at 12:47 <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> Assume you are already aware of
> https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/home
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> which I think is where the whole idea of DCAT profiles was most
> comprehensively discussed until now.
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> Simon
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> *From:* Rob Atkinson [mailto:rob@metalinkage.com.au]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 June, 2017 12:35
> *To:* public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Profile definition
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> Looking for a working definition of a profile - here's a starter from
> Dublin Core [1]
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> "A DCAP is a document (or set of documents) that specifies and describes
> the metadata used in a particular application. To accomplish this, a
> profile:
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>    - describes what a community wants to accomplish with its application
>    (Functional Requirements);
>    - characterizes the types of things described by the metadata and
>    their relationships (Domain Model);
>    - enumerates the metadata terms to be used and the rules for their use
>    (Description Set Profile and Usage Guidelines); and
>    - defines the machine syntax that will be used to encode the data
>    (Syntax Guidelines and Data Formats)."
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> I think service access is possibly another dimension of profile - and in
> fact I'd like to model profiles as n-dimensional, with the ability to label
> (soft-type) each of the dimensions an AP chooses to qualify.
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> So, even though we are not going to define any specific AP, I think we
> need to decide if we will define a meta-model for an AP, in terms of
> attachment points for each of these aspects, as well as self-reporting
> identification of the set of APs a document conforms to.
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> Any advances on this definition  before I have a go at defining generic
> Use Case(s) that covers this scope?
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> [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/#sect-2
>