Re: [dxwg] Profiles and distributions

Each distribution can have multiple values of dct:conformsTo to indicate profiles the distribution conforms to. Different distributions can conform to different sets of profiles.

The range of conformsTo is dct:Standard

The profiles ontology subclasses dct:Standard - so the mechanisms are available for the declarations required.

The issue of enforcing informational equivalence seems fraught however - its hard to imagine any distribution provided by a service that doesnt support either subsetting, calculations, additional links or lossy transformations - e.g. flattening objects to CSV with "magic" needed to relate columns together.

e.g. cost="USD 23.44" => "cost" = 23.44, "currency"="USD"

I havent seen a cogent argument for requiring informational equivalence in distributions yet...


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