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 # xapi-profiles
-A companion specification to xAPI that addresses the structure and supporting services for xAPI Profiles.
+This is a companion specification to the core xAPI Specification that addresses the structure and supporting services for xAPI Profiles.
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+A profile is the human and/or machine-readable documentation of application-specific concepts, statement patterns, extensions, and statement templates used when implementing xAPI in a particular context. In a nutshell, a profile documents the vocabulary concepts, extensions, statement templates, and patterns that are required for xAPI to be implemented consistently for a specific use case. A profile empowers designers and developers to establish a controlled, domain-specific vocabulary and determine what data should be captured/stored and reported on. In other words, a profile really is the blueprint for a successful, semantically interoperable xAPI implementation.
 
 This Github repository contains the xAPI Profiles Specification. [xAPI](https://github.com/adlnet/xAPI-Spec) is a learning
 technologies interoperability specification that describes communication

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 <a name="pattern"></a>**Pattern**: One way a series of Statements following a Profile could look. Defined by this specification.
 
-<a name="profile"></a>**Profile**: What this specification focuses on. A profile is a way to talk about Concepts, Statement Templates, and Patterns for Experience API data in a particular context, and in particular to describe them so machines can do some processing automatically.
+<a name="profile"></a>**Profile**: A profile is the human and/or machine-readable documentation of application-specific concepts, statement patterns, extensions, and statement templates used when implementing xAPI in a particular context. A profile is a way to talk about Concepts, Statement Templates, and Patterns for Experience API data in a particular context, and in particular to describe them so machines can do some processing automatically.
 
 <a name="profileauthor"></a>**Profile Author**: Some person or group writing a Profile.
 
-<a name="profileserver"></a>**Profile Server**: A place to find and browse Profiles.
+<a name="profileserver"></a>**Profile Server**: A place to find, browse, and query Profiles, vocabulary concepts, and other profile metadata.
 
 <a name="profilevalidator"></a>**Profile Validator**: Any person or machine attempting to verify if the rules in a Profile are followed for a particular set of data.