Difference between revisions of "DC Application Profile"

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==References==
==References==


[[http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/  Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles]]
[http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/  Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles]

Revision as of 12:07, 7 November 2008

This page is to summarize the DC specifications and concepts of DC Metadata profiles and howto create them.

DC Description Set Profile[edit]

A Description Set Profile (DSP) basically consists of Templates and Constraints. Templates are to express structures and Constraints limit those structures.

Constraints[edit]

Constraints are used to define limitations on

  • resources e.g. only resources of type foaf:person are allowed
  • properties e.g. a person has a property called foaf:name
    • two ways: giving an explicit list of allowed properties, requiring the property to be a sub-property of a given property
  • values e.g. the value of a special property must be a Literal


Templates[edit]

References[edit]

Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles