Re: Do we really need a notion of profile "conformance"?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:35:18PM +0200, Antoine Isaac wrote:
> In particular I like very much the notion of 'specification' rather
> than 'document'.  'document' points to a rather concrete instance of a
> profile, while 'specification' is more conceptual, and allows to to
> group things together. For example, 'specification' allows me to
> consider the Europeana Data Model as a specification that can be
> detailed in an XML Schema, an RDFS/OWL document, or a SHACL
> represention. If we jump straight to the definition, then all the
> 'instanciations' of the Europeana Data Model would live in splendid
> isolation. There are many more downsides to focusing on 'documents'
> but this one seems a major showstopper to me.

+1 to "specification" with this nice explanation of the distinction.

Tom

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