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oai:dcpapers.dublincore.org:952607967 2026-09-10 dcmi-2026 openaire

Tapir: A Graphical Editor for Tabular Application Profiles Thalhath, Nishad Nagamori, Mitsuharu Sakaguchi, Tetsuo Application profiles record the local application of metadata vocabulary terms, how they combine, and the values they may take. Two tabular formats are in active use for authoring them. SimpleDSP, from the Metadata Information Infrastructure Construction Project in Japan, has served for over a decade as a tabular form of the Description Set Profile model. DCTAP, from a more recent DCMI working group, covers the same ground without the DSP inheritance. Neither has displaced the other, but practitioners moving between communities have had no single authoring interface that treats the two as peers. This paper compares the two formats along the dimensions that shape application profile authoring in practice, and argues that neither is a reduction of the other. Based on this analysis, the authors present Tapir, a browser-based graphical editor whose internal model is a superset of both formats. Tapir preserves the bilingual character of SimpleDSP and runs entirely in the user's browser, so profile data never leaves the author's machine. Alongside the editor, an updated command-line toolkit and a type-safe authoring route in Apple's Pkl language operate on the same profile model. The editor, the toolkit, and the Pkl package are released as open-source software. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2026-09-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Text application/pdf text/html https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952607967 https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/article/952607967 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference Proceedings eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/