DLF Spring 2006
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Profiling Package Standards
•Every Implementation of IMS-CP or METS will:
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•Constrain the Standard
•Extend the Standard
•Interpret the Standard
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•The sum of these adjustments is the implementation profile
•The Standards themselves encourage profiling in a systematic way:
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•IMS Application Profile Guidelines Technical Manual
•http://imsglobal.org/ap/apv1p0/imsap_techv1p0.html
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•METS Profile Schema and Guidelines
•http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-profiles.html
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Need for Application Profile perhaps greater with Content Packaging, as the specs are by definition quite loose.  They're empty envelopes to carry content and metadata, and are markedly unspecified.
Compare some descriptive metadata specifications (??), where there is still plenty of contention, but you aren't contending with "wildcard" use of entire areas of the spec '*' goes here. (???)

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