Re: [dxwg] From SHACL: profiles based on same ontology (#800)

@nicholascar that is fine but this seems not really matching the idea of 'due for closing' I would mark an issue such as the one here as 'due for closing' after an email has been sent, and we've received a reaction, or one month has passed and we got no reaction... This would be the idea of the label, for me.

@kcoyle @makxdekkers  all sorry I have not reacted because there are so many issues to react to, and I'm losing track. I guess I wanted to make progress on some other discussions first, and then this was on hold.
But I wouldn't consider it out of scope. Looking at how Karen formulated it, the issue is about enabling people to make a kind of diff between profiles of a same ontologies. It's not a mapping issue, in the sense that it doesn't require a formal alignment. One simply needs to understand differences between profiles. This is quite relevant, and indeed crucial to the vision of profile ecosystems (of which ID37 is only an example).
Now I would say we can't answer the need fully, and we should probably not seek to do it. Doing a full comparison would require to compare the "realizations/implementations" of the profiles, i.e. both the machine-readable specs (XML Schemas etc) or the human-readable ones. My take on this is that it is in scope for the formalisms these implementations are written in, not for us.
BUT we can still say that what's in scope for us is the first mile, i.e. the identification of the documents that shall be compared, so that one can answer the original question. And the serving of PROF descriptions of profiles is the tool for that. In informal terms it enables to say "You want to compare profiles? Well, if you want to do it, here are the various documents that you should compare to get your answer". It's not rocket science, but it's a key piece of the puzzle.

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