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“a final manual test is suggested to the tester (to test if any of the linkages points to a webpage with further instructions or a client application that directly accesses the service).” The prerequisites section contains a condition that in previous test was with in the Test method Prerequisites the hierarchylevel of resource should be "service" To specify the precondition of being a service, adopt the same approach as in the other tests. The Test method contains a meaningless sentence: “The test first checks if a service type element is given at serviceType and if it is unique throughout the document.” Remove the sentence in bold. Its execution is actually redundant because of A.05.IR14.ds.keyword.md for datasets and series and of A.06.IR15.srv.keyword.md for services Add to the test method the part in bold: “The test checks if at least one keyword element is provided and it is not an empty characterstring. This test is already implemented for data and services by A.05.IR14.ds.keyword.md and A.06.IR15.srv.keyword.md, respectively. A failure in those tests implies a failure of this test.” The part of the test method that about validating the keyword against the thesaurus when its URL is available is out of place since it is not in any requirement. In addition, it implies that a URL of the thesaurus is needed, which is not true: “Validating if the keyword is actually available in the indicated vocabulary is a challenge, since the vocabulary is usually not referenced by a URL. If a Remove the following sentence: “Validating if the keyword is actually available in the indicated vocabulary is a challenge, since the vocabulary is usually not referenced by a URL. If a vocabulary is indicated that is available to the validator, then this check can be performed.”
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