This report is framed in a research in progress project that has
as goal the development of a method for the development of Dublin
Core Application Pro les (Me4DCAP). The development of the rst
version of Me4DCAP has been published. This paper describes in
detail Me4DCAP V0.1, showing the sources used to justify its design.
Me4DCAP was based in a Design Science Research methodological approach.
It has as starting point the Singapore framework for Dublin
Core Application Pro les (DCAP) and the Rational Uni ed Process;
and integrates also knowledge from: (i) software development processes
and techniques, focusing on the early stages of the processes
that deal with data modeling; and from (ii) the practices of the metadata
community concerning DCAP development. Me4DCAP establishes
the way through the DCAP development. It establishes when
activities must take place, how they interconnect, and which deliverables
they will bring about; it also suggests which techniques should
be used to build these deliverables
