Prof File

[Kristin Banyas]

Perhaps he found your message trivial, petty, or condescending. (Whether or not that is justified, I have no idea, since you don't include your message; but regardless, it's possible he took it that way.) He may have felt that "showing" you how that comes across was the best way to respond. (Again, I don't endorse that, but I think it's a possibility.)

So, he may have just taken the first "petty" response that came to mind, and settled on that, intending to demonstrate to you that your own tone was not particularly effective at gaining a sympathetic response.

I agree with the (downvoted) answer from @Artoo. Unless you have reason to cultivate a relationship with this person, I think you'd do well to avoid worrying too much about what he thinks of you. If you do have an interest in cultivating a relationship, you'd do well to develop a full understanding of why he said what he did, rather than trying to evaluate its accuracy.

What a jerk! No, writing "Prof." is perfectly fine; his reaction is both incorrect and completely inappropriate. I cannot imagine any professor I know (even the ones I don't like) writing such a thing.

Ah. Is it possible he's being snarky about your abbreviation since you criticized his typos? If your e-mail had a condescending tone, maybe he is trying to "bite back." That's the only thing I can think of.

Also, I'll be assuming that the issue was about "Prof." and not about including degrees/other titles. If the issue is the latter, I assume it is really standard and that the prof has them clearly displayed somewhere for you to see?

Regarding "Prof.", I did a search over my emails looking for the exact string "Prof.". What I found: I have been addressed as "Prof. Argerami" in emails a bit more than a thousand times. There were emails from (many of each)

I disagree with the vehemence of other answers. My experience has been that some students understand very little of the very tiny amounts of protocol we tend to follow in academia. As a result, the way that they address faculty, both in writing and in person, varies between rather informal and somewhat insulting. I think it is perfectly reasonable to try to address this problem right from the start, to avoid future issues. It is nice that some professors are perfectly fine with informality. But that does not mean that their view is the correct one and if some colleagues disagree they are then jerks or anything of the sort. You sort of have to learn to navigate between different levels of comfort.

My advice would be to address faculty in a formal way in general. Many will quickly request that you 'relax' and address them differently. Others may not tell you directly but it will be clear from their interactions. Still others may appreciate the formality and welcome it.

"Dr. Octopus" is a perfectly formal address line. You would rarely see "Doctor Octopus". I think it borders on archaic use. "Dr Octopus" is just about the same as "Dr. Octopus", but someone has gotten just a tad casual about the period.

Now, lets move to "Professor". "Prof." is a fine abbreviation, and maintains a level of formality. I'd say "Prof" is the same, with a slightly casual drop of a period, but suggest the person you're interacting with might be placing it in the "Doc" category.

Although I find it very unusual the professor doesn't approve of you using the Prof. abbreviation, he is able to state his preference for how you address him. Some people are VERY particular and some people are highly functional despite having psychological problems. I think the key takeaway is that the professor clearly has a preference for how to be addressed and directly communicated that desire. I would advise you not to use the Prof. abbreviation with this professor, but feel free to use it for others, since it is generally accepted.

I'm not sure that "chastise" is completely accurate. Maybe "correcting you" is kinder wording. Also, not sure why this is so important to you to come to Q&A site with wounds to show. It's not a big deal.

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The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources. It can be used to describe profile hierarchies wherein profiles of specifications may themselves have profiles indicated. It can also link multiple profile resources that make up a profile - guidelines, validation tools, schemas, term lists and so on - to it and allows for those profile resources to be described with formats, roles, and digital artifacts.

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This Profiles Vocabulary (PROF) provides a standardized, structured and human- & machine-readable set of terms to describe profiles. Its development was triggered by the appearance of multiple profiles of the Dataset Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) [VOCAB-DCAT] and examples of profile description and implementation guidance systems such as the Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles [DCAP] and the OpenGeospatial Consortium's Standard for Modular specifications [MODSPEC].

Profiles aim to increase interoperability within a community of users by introducing constraints, extensions or combinations on the use of more general specifications. PROF is an RDF vocabulary created to describe relations between specifications and profiles and the profile resources that define and implement profiles. A specification is "A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated." (see the definition below) and a profile, perhaps an application profile, is defined as "A [data/application] specification that constrains, extends, combines, or provides guidance or explanation about the usage of other [data/application] specifications". Profile resources may be human-readable documents (PDFs, textual documents), vocabularies, schemas or ontologies (XSD, RDF), constraint language resources used by specific validation tools (SHACL, ShEx, Schematron), or any other files or profile resources that support the profile. In this specification, each profile resource is able to have roles assigned to it that define its functions within the profile.

This vocabulary's ontological basis for specification/profile relations is a specialization of the dct:Standard class which is defined here as a prof:Profile. A prof:Profile instance is related to either dct:Standard or prof:Profile instances by being a profile of them, formally, prof:isProfileOf. Resources that conform to either a dct:Standard or a prof:Profile are formally described as doing so with the use of the dct:conformsTo predicate.

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