Application Profile
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Drupal, RDFa and the fauxpository, Talat Chaudry writes:
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Application Profiles are essentially structured metadata comprising elements and (usually) relationships, and are therefore inherently linked data solutions. They vary in complexity according to their particular functional requirements: for instance, in the world of scholarly publications, there is a spectrum between the straightforward, unstructured way that DSpace implements Dublin Core (which should perhaps be called the DSpace Application Profile), the simplified FRBR structure of the Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP) and the complex entity-relationship model of CERIF, the standard developed for Current Research Information Systems (CRISs). This latter is a de facto application profile, even if it is not normally referred to as such.
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What is an application profile anyway?
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It's a customised metadata solution for a particular set of resource types.
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It allows you to tailor metadata to the specific needs of an application.
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It can also provide ways to describe relationships between resources.