B.4

Registration of DMF metadata profile

Each DMF metadata profile and relative XML schemas shall be registered within the DGIWG. This registration mechanism involves the documentation of the relationship between the DMF and the profile with a set of tables:* The metadata class table defines the DMF metadata classes in the scope of the profile as well as the profile specific metadata classes and their dependencies.

• The metadata element table defines for each DMF Metadata element, the corresponding profile metadata element (there may be many in case of an inherited metadata element), its cardinality, and inheritance criteria when applicable.

The naming of the profile should follow this template:

http://www.dgiwg.org/std/dmf/profile/name[/version]

where name is the name of the template (see Annex Ffor examples of existing names) and version is the version of the profile, if any.