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A Description Set Profile (DSP) basically consists of Templates and Constraints. Templates are to express structures and Constraints limit those structures. The following graphic from [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/  DCMI] shows the basic structure of a DSP:
A Description Set Profile (DSP) basically consists of Templates and Constraints. Templates are to express structures and Constraints limit those structures. The following graphic from [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/  DCMI] shows the basic structure of a DSP:


[[Image:dsp-uml.png | Picture 1 | Structure of DSP from http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/]]
[[Image:dsp-uml.png|thumb|Structure of DSP from http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/]]





Revision as of 12:36, 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]

Resources, properties and values are given in a Description set which can be defined in a Description Set Profile (DSP). A Description Set Profile (DSP) basically consists of Templates and Constraints. Templates are to express structures and Constraints limit those structures. The following graphic from DCMI shows the basic structure of a DSP:

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Constraints[edit]

The right part of the graphic shows the different kinds of constraints that can occur in a DSP.

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]