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(As introduced in my C4L2019 lightening talk - pls repost as appropriate) Are you your organization's "metadata expert"? Have you ever had to create a metadata schema, or fiddle with one? Do you wish you had better tools for all of this? DCMI's new Application Profiles Interest Group (DCAP-IG) [1] wants to make it easier for content experts without programming experience to create and test machine-actionable application profiles for their metadata. To enable this, we need a common language -- a core vocabulary -- for the basic components of an application profile and commonly used constraint types. This vocabulary can serve as the target for the development of a range of authoring options, from simple spreadsheet templates to automated scripts in more complex and expressive programming and constraint languages. Starting with a preliminary draft vocabulary [3], based on prior DCMI work [4], we are forming working groups to define requirements and scope the needs space, complete the core vocabulary, consider implementation workflows, and post reusable snippets on the Web [2]. Please bring your perspective to the new DCAP-IG so that we can create something broadly useful, extensible, and representative of current thinking in the metadata community. Join now![5] [1] http://www.dublincore.org/groups/application_profiles_ig/ [2] https://github.com/dcmi/dcap [3] https://github.com/dcmi/dcap/blob/master/schemaList.csv [4] http://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dc-dsp/ [5] https://lists.dublincore.org/mailman/listinfo/application-profiles-ig -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600