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Introduction to Application Profiles

NOTE: The outline below is an initial attempt to provide an approach to Application Profiles suitable for new users and as a reference point for all users. Some attempt is made within the outline approach to include links to already existing documentation that could be integrated within an overall guidelines document.

Why use Application Profiles?

http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/profiles/index.shtml - Legacy (2003) Usage Board definition of "application profile"
http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2005/09/03/profile-guidelines/ : Dublin Core Application Profile Guidelines (2005, pre-DCAM)
http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/, DCMI Abstract Model

Organizing Community Consensus Around an Application Profile

Determining domain or community boundaries
Marketing the AP Process to the community
Engaging institutional support
Developing a community acceptance plan

Building AP Functional Requirements

Surveying community needs
Gathering functional requirements
Developing use cases

Developing an Application Domain Model

Choosing Appropriate Terms

Re-using existing properties

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/mixing-matching-faq/ - Mixing and Matching FAQ ("why can't I just re-use my XML element", Andy, 2005)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc-elem-prop/ - XML, RDF, and DCAPs (differences between an XML element and an RDF property, Pete, 2005)
http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-elem-refine/ - Element Refinement in Dublin Core Metadata (discussion by Pete of semantic refinement, 2005)

Declaring new properties

http://dublincore.org/documents/naming-policy/ - DCMI Policy on Naming Terms (uppercase for classes, lowercase for properties, etc, Tom and Stu, 2004)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/term-identifier-guidelines/ - Guidelines for Assigning Identifiers to Metadata Terms (Andy suggestions re: purl.org, info, xmlns.com, myproject.org, 2004)
http://dublincore.org/architecturewiki/ResourceIdentifierGuidelines - Guidelines for using resource identifiers in Dublin Core metadata (a more recent version of the 2004 guidelines?)

Determining a Description Set Profile

* Description Sets

Recommending Value Vocabularies

Evaluating and recommending general and domain specific vocabularies
Developing new vocabularies

Providing User Guidelines

Expressing Your AP for the Use of Humans and Machines

Human-readable expression
Machine-readable expression

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc-text/ - DC-TEXT
ftp://ftp.cenorm.be/public/ws-mmi-dc/mmidc144.pdf - Guidelines for machine-processable representation of Dublin Core Application Profiles (CEN-workshop paper on representing application profiles in RDF, 2004)

DCMI Review

http://dublincore.org/documents/approval/ (updated August 2007): Procedure for approval of proposals by DCMI
http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/: DCMI Usage Board Administrative Process
http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/ProfileReviewCriteriaNew : Review of Application Profiles

Maintenance Planning

Example APs

Scholarly Works Application Profile - test version with DSP formatting embedded
Scholarly Works Application Profile - original profile page hosted at UKOLN

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