Application-Level Profile Semantics (ALPS)
Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Mark Edward Foster · 1998
This document describes ALPS, a data format for defining simple descriptions of application-level semantics, similar in complexity to HTML microformats. An ALPS document can be used as a profile to explain the application semantics of a document with an application- agnostic media type (such as HTML, HAL, Collection+JSON, Siren, etc.). This increases the reusability of profile documents across media types.