FPWD: The Profiles Ontology

The Profiles Ontology

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-dx-prof-20181218/

Abstract

The Profiles Ontology is an RDF vocabulary to describe profiles of (one or more) standards for information resources. It describes the general pattern of narrowing the scope of a specification with additional, but consistent, constraints, and is particularly relevant to data exchange situations where conformance to such profiles is expected and carries additional context. The Profiles Ontology enables profile descriptions to specify the role of resources related to data exchange such as schemas, ontologies, rules about use of controlled vocabularies, validation tools, and guidelines. The ontology may however be used to describe the role of artifacts in any situation where constraints are made on a the usage of more general specifications. The namespace for PROF terms is defined in Section 3: Namespaces, and the vocabulary terms in Section 7: Vocabulary Specification.

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Overview of DXWG documents on profiles 

This document is part of a set of documents on profiles, edited by the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group (DXWG). Some of the documents are general while some are technology-specific:
 
  * [PROF-GUIDANCE], the top-level general recommendations and guidance on profiling. It gives an overview of all DXWG documents on profiles and is the recommended starting point 
  * [PROF-ONT] (this document), an RDF vocabulary that describes profiles and related resources 
  * [PROF-CONNEG], the specific guidance on how to negotiate for Internet resource content using profiles 
  * [PROF-IETF], an IETF Internet-Draft defining HTTP Headers for HTTP content negotiation by profile

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