Re: [dxwg] Change short names and explain scope better (#599)

The Profiles Ontology is an RDF vocabulary to describe the resources that define and implement a profile. These resources may be human-readable documents (PDFs, textual documents), vocabularies or ontologies (XSD, RDF),  resources specific to validation tools (SHACL, ShEx, Schematron), or any other files or resources that support the profile. Each resource is defined as having a role that defines its function within the profile.

The ontology also provides for the description of relationships between profiles and the standards to which they conform. Standards in this case can be vocabularies or it can be other profiles from which the described profile is a derivation, expansion, or selection. This ontology provides a standardized, machine readable formalism for describing the context of profiles. The basis of the ontology is a specialization of <code><a href="http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-Standard">dct:Standard</a></code>, allowing the use of the <code><a href="http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-conformsTo">dct:conformsTo</a></code> predicate to specify conformance to a profile.

Would definitely like @draggett to review - not just this but the entire introduction (just a few paragraphs)

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