Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Validating Traces — Syntactically, Semantically, and Situationally
How do you validate a reified trace of digital-object provenance?
A Disconnect Between FAIR Infrastructure Devs and Product Devs
Rory Macneil nails it:1 This seems to me to be a really important problem.
Validating Translation
Given a representation of (meta)data that dcterms:conformsTo some data profile, you may wish to translate it to another data profile.
Semantic Stars Upon Thars
To validate is to compute, so indexing metadata for past validation events and caching any detailed payloads can save time and effort.