Re: [dxwg] profileDesc and the Guidance document

Hi Karen - looks good

I do have a question (or suggestion)  about the metadata side of things...

a lot of this is standard "cataloguing" - and would be covered by the DCAT
move to an abstract dcat:Resource

so wondering if we shouldnt push this into a more general statement about
using available descriptive metadata
the bits that are not already covered by DCAT are of course
"  * Relationship to vocabs or other profiles
  * Link to validation schemas implementing the profile "

This tends to support the alignment of profileDesc with DCAT - which could
be pointed as a recommended way to use DCAT to meet these goals.






On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 02:01 kcoyle via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org> wrote:

> I've thought more about this, and here is an outline that is based on some
> metadata profiles that I am familiar with. Although none of our use cases
> specifies the need for administrative data, we can probably assume that it
> is, if not required, at least a good idea.
>
> This outline separates into two separate sections the expression of the
> profile itself, and information about the profile (meta information). What
> goes where is up for discussion, but this seems to me to break the profile
> description into sections that would make sense to the reader: what is a
> profile? how do I make it available? (publishing), how is it administered?,
> what needs to be said about its context? All of this could be managed in a
> single profile document, or there could be separate documents that are
> linked.
>
>
> Introduction (non-normative)
> What is a profile? (normative)
> * A profile SHOULD have a textual description intended for humans
> * A profile SHOULD describe metadata elements/properties
> * A profile SHOULD describe valid value types for elements
> * A profile SHOULD provide relevant cardinality rules
> * (etc. here until we finalize requirements - these are just examples)
>
> Profile publication (normative)
> * (here the various options for publication - PDF, XML, RDF...)
>
> Examples (non-normative)
>     * ODRL is a good example since their profiles are explicitly
> media-type independent
>     * DCAT APs
>     * BIBFRA.ME (one namespace)
>
> Definitions (normative)
> * Profile
> * Schema (?)
> * Formalism (?)
> * ...
>
> Administrative and descriptive metadata (normative)
> * Administrative
>   * A profile MUST have URI (or an IRI?) identifying it. The URI SHOULD be
> an http URI
>   * creator/maintainer (+ contact info)
>   * date/version
>   * ...
> * Descriptive
>   * title
>   * human-readable description
>     * Background, motivation, use cases
>     * Design rationale
>     * Model and elements
>   * Relationship to vocabs or other profiles
>   * Link to validation schemas implementing the profile
>   * Example(s) (non-normative)
>
> Bibliography
>
>
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