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Metadata Watch Report #3

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Section 4 - The future of application profiles

Looking at the list of functional requirements formulated by Baker, it can be seen that these cover a number of the questions for which implementers may be looking for answers. It supposes, however, that these implementers have an objective to re-use the experience and approach from others and that they have the aim to increase the potential interoperability between the collection they describe and other collections.

The work on application profiles is, however, in its early stages. A number of fundamental questions have only begun to be asked and answers need to be found through further research and experimentation.

Much is dependent on the emergence of registries where application profiles can be published and found by others. Work in the area of registries is underway in various places, such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the Indecs project, XML.org, and, indeed, the SCHEMAS project itself.

Based on the experiences gained in these various activities, conclusions can be reached on how application profiles can help implementers to make the best use of experiences from other activities, thereby reducing the resources in the design and implementation phase, as well as helping further harmonisation to take place.

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