Use Case: Allow extra types on root dataset

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Research Object Crate

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Use Case: Allow extra types on root dataset #182

Closed ptsefton closed 1 year ago

ptsefton commented 2 years ago

As a profile designer I want to have additional types on the root dataset to simplify writing profiles - the current use case is wanting to be able to double up with "RepositoryCollection" (pcdmCollection) or "RepositoryObject" (pcdm:Object) to distinguish between collections and "actual data".

ptsefton commented 2 years ago

We're doing this now - does anyone object to it being made legit in the spec?

stain commented 2 years ago

I think it should be allowed. This is also useful for profiles #153 if we want to type as prof:Profile which seems a useful type for profiles together with profile nesting prof:isProfileOf