W3C publishes first draft of Profiles Vocabulary
The W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group has published the first public working draft of the Profiles Vocabulary, a framework designed to provide machine-readable descriptions of profiles and the resources associated with them.
The World Wide Web Consortium’s Dataset Exchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of The Profiles Vocabulary, also known as PROF.
The vocabulary is designed to describe profiles of specifications in a machine-readable way. A profile can be understood as a set of requirements, guidance or technical resources built around an existing specification for a particular purpose or use case.
PROF can also describe relationships between profiles, including hierarchies in which one profile builds on or further specifies another. In addition, it can link the different resources that make up a profile, such as guidelines, validation tools, schemas and lists of terms.
These resources can be described according to their formats, roles and associated digital artefacts. The vocabulary is defined using the Web Ontology Language and is encoded in RDF Turtle, supporting its use in systems that exchange and process structured data.
As a First Public Working Draft, the publication marks an early stage in the W3C standardisation process. The working group is inviting feedback on the draft through its GitHub repository, which will inform further development of the specification.
