Re: [dxwg] Values for dcterms:conformsTo of instances dcat:DataService (sparql endpoints, for example) (#1211)

Juyst remember there are three things happening - all of which are failry common sense unless mixed up...
1. identification of some conformance concept expected by some community (this is actually all a dct:Standard is) - so there needs to be a published URI shared amongst a community (this matches @smrgeoinfo view)
2. publication of resources in various forms to allow such a conformance target to be described (all the weird and wonderful platforms that evolve )
3. A canonical way to describe a standard and find all the resources a client may need (this is what PROF does). 

So PROF isnt a pre-requisite  of dct:conformsTo - it just makes the URI identifiers of conformance statement targets useful beyond simple string comparison use cases and human reading of specification documents.



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