CWA 15249:2005

Guidance information for naming, versioning, evolution, and maintenance of element declarations and application profiles

Scope

This CWA covers naming conventions for the following entities:
- a metadata term (Term);
- a historical snapshot of the attributes describing a Term (Term Description);
- a set of one or more annotations about a property used in an application as cited in an Application Profile (Property Usage);
- a set of one or more Terms (Term Set);
- a document documenting a Term Set (Term-Set Document);
- a formal schema (e.g., in RDF) declaring one or more Terms (Term-Set Schema);
- a set of one or more Term Usages (Application Profile).
These entities are defined in more detail in "Section 2. Definitions".
This CWA is addressed to people who wish to understand the policies and methods by which DCMI metadata terms and term sets are identified and named and to people who may want to emulate those policies and methods for naming and identifying terms under their own maintenance authority.