IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2015 is over. Having finished their ice cream and sorbet while sitting on a couch at Toscanini’s watching it snow, the topics of sameAs, reuse, and general semantics leads to a mention of Dublin Core Application Profiles.

1. A:

   Dublin Core Application Profiles could be useful for a conceptual basis for metadata interoperation.

2. T:

   (Yahoos for dublin core application profiles, clicks first result)

3. T:

   Dublin Core Application Profile Guidelines (SUPERSEDED, SEE Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles)

4. T:

   Kind of like how The Judean People’s Front was superseded by The People’s Front of Judea?

5. A:

   (nervous laugh)

6. T:

   Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles

7. T:

   Replaces: http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/11/03/profile-guidelines/

8. T:

   Hmm. (clicks back)

9. T:

   Dublin Core Application Profile Guidelines

10. T:

    Is Replaced By: Not applicable, wait, isn’t that supposed to be an inverse relationship?

11. A:

    I’m used to this shit.

12. T:

    (nods, clicks forward, starts scrolling, reading)

13. T:

    We decide that the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) meet our needs. - I’m not sure the rest of the world would agree.

14. A:

    No surprises there.

15. T:

    The person has a name, but we want to record the forename and family name separately rather than as a single string. DCMI Metadata Terms has no such properties, so we will take the properties foaf:firstName and foaf:family_name

16. T:

    Wait what? Not "given-name" and "family-name"? Nor "first-name" and "last-name" but "firstName" and "family_name"?!?

17. A:

    Clearly it wasn’t proofread.

18. T:

    But it’s in the following table too. foaf:firstName / foaf:family_name

19. A:

    At least it’s internally consistent.

20. A:

    Oh, this is really depressing.

21. A:

    Did they even read the FOAF spec or did they just hear a rumour?

22. T:

    (opens text editor)