- From: Annette Greiner via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:12:45 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
I like the way this brings in profiles early and begins to explain what they are. I agree with the general idea, but I'd like this to be about data, not just metadata. So, something like this would work better for me: "Communities create and use data standards to ensure interoperability for information exchange. Although members of a community may use the same basic standard schema, it is very common for different subsets within the larger community to need some further specification of the data they create to meet their own needs. To continue to support interoperability of their data with others, these community members need to express the specifics of their implementation of the data schema. Profiles serve this purpose. Profiles enumerate vocabulary terms, cardinality, and validation rules, and can also include descriptions of the rules used by creators to make decisions regarding their data elements. Good data modeling practice begins with . . ." The last paragraph starts with a sentence fragment, which might be solved by removing the word "since". It strikes me as a little odd that this paragraph only addresses the needs of a single system rather than a community or subset of a community. Given the first paragraph's focus on the latter, it could be reworded as "In addition to addressing the needs of a specific community, a profile may also apply to a single system. Any individual system will be designed to meet a specific set of needs; that is, it will operate in a specific context. It is that context, and the individual choices made by the engineers working within it, that will determine how a vocabulary or set of vocabularies will be used. For example, a system ingesting data may require that a specific subset of properties from a range of vocabularies is used and that only terms from a defined code list are used as values for specified properties. In other words, where the 'base vocabulary' might say "the value of this property SHOULD be a value from a managed code list", a specialised profile will say "the value of this property MUST be from this specific code list". -- GitHub Notification of comment by agreiner Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/417#issuecomment-426471730 using your GitHub account
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