Re: [dxwg] A profile may be (partially) "implemented" by "schemas" (in OWL, SHACL, XML Schema...) that allow different levels of data validation [ID37] (5.37)

> Careful all: a starting assumption here is that it is the Profile that is being conformed to, not a part thereof. This is so a Profile can have guidance docs etc, as well as validator files. 
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Given that the validator files provide the only concrete way to test conformance, if 
> this validation may happen at different levels and to different extents 
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Then either the different these different validators represent different profiles, or there needs to be some concrete way to declare that a representation has passed some particular validation test.  It is certainly possible that validators might operate on some canonical version of the dataset or on a particular representation; from the point of view of a user, I think its most important to know how the representation a particular distribution offers has been validated.  As has been pointed out above, an xml  distribution can be validated via schema and schematron, where as an RDF distribution might be validated with a SHACL script that has different expressive capabilities.  Perhaps this could best be represented using the Data Quality vocabularies that allow specifying the test that was run and the test result. 

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