LOIN-XML-Schema

The schema for exchanging Level of Information Need (LOIN) specifications according to EN17412-3.

Warning The informatation, data sets and examples you find here are heavly work in progress. The ISO committee members use these to discuss and evaluate different approaches to capture LOINs. The data sets found here are not yet final and should not be used in production. They do not represent common argreements (yet).

Please feel invited to contribute through issues or code!

TODOs

• decide on lowercase, PascalCase, or camelCase spelling for attributes and element definitionj
• closely coordinate with ISO 23378 (PDT) and 12006 (bsDD) committees
• enable three models of alphanumeric information need definitons: a) inline/ad hoc for standalone LOINS b) refer to PDT instances c) refer to concept definitions in bSDD and other repositories for measures, units, properties etc. . encurage and enable reuse of concepts
• evaluate LinkedData (RDF(S), OWL) approaches. The current XML Schema solutions are much focused on serialization, less on modelling. IRIs/URIs for concepts might be a more useful solution than bespoke targetUUID references.
• ...
• Profit!