Blog posts from 2021

The Dublin Core Application Profiles Interest Group wishes to receive comments on the DC Tabular Application Profiles (DC TAP) draft specification. The DC TAP specification aims to facilitate the reuse of metadata terms and concept schemes from existing vocabularies. Initially it is focused on RDF terms, but we hope it will be applicable to some other approaches. It provides a standard tabular format, which is human editable and machine readable, for documenting which terms should be used in a metadata application and any constraints on their use. Work is underway on tools to convert application profiles in DC TAP to other more expressive formats for validating RDF data, such as ShEx and SHACL.

Metadata is widely applied in China within political, cultural, scientific, and educational contexts. Various national and industry metadata standards have been established, promoting data value mining, sharing, and communication. Presenting Chinese experience to an international audience is helpful for the development of metadata-related research and practice.