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The Dublin Core work on tabular application profiles (DC TAP) has been published as a stable draft [1] and announced on the Dublin Core site. [2] The DC TAP has 12 elements/columns that can express the basic requirements for APs representing metadata entities, properties, property cardinality, value type, and additional constraints on value types. These elements fulfill basic profile needs but obviously not every possible feature of a profile. It’s our hope that many more functions can be fulfilled with extensions to this simple set. The working group is creating a “cookbook” of possible solutions to additional requirements, some of which come out of this community, e.g. indicating order of values; allowing alternate value types; and others. We will continue to announce milestones to this channel and welcome comments and suggestions. Information on how to comment is in the draft, and links to more documents can be found in the blog post. [1] https://www.dublincore.org/groups/application_profiles_ig/dctap_primer/ <https://www.dublincore.org/groups/application_profiles_ig/dctap_primer/> [2] https://www.dublincore.org/blog/2021/draft_tap_specification/ <https://www.dublincore.org/blog/2021/draft_tap_specification/> -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net