2 posts tagged with "Requirements"

Today NDE releases SCHEMA-AP-NDE 1.0: the first stable version of the Schema.org Application Profile every dataset in the Dutch cultural heritage network is expected to publish. It comes with a backward compatibility promise: as long as we stay on 1.x, data that conforms keeps conforming, and software built against it keeps working.

That is what a 1.0 really is: not just a number, but a signal of stability. It is worth asking what that promise means for a specification, and why a shared profile needs a version number at all.

Version 2.0 of the Requirements for Datasets is on the horizon. It tightens rules that are warnings today into full requirements, aligns the Dataset Register with DCAT-AP-NL 3.0, and raises the baseline quality of dataset descriptions across the Dutch cultural heritage network. Publishers and collection management system vendors have until Monday 3 May 2027 to prepare.