DC Application Profile

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

DC Description Set Profile

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

Constraints

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

References

• Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles
• DCMI Abstract Model

Dublin Core

Description Set Profile