Directory

The w3c directory ties in nicely with some of our work encouraging 
organisations to create a "profile document" describing themselves, and 
their available data in a way which makes it possible to
a) auto-discover it.
b) have some degree of confidence that the dataset you are accessing is 
authorised by the controller of the domain, and not just some side 
project (a big issue in universities which can be a bit chaotic, in a 
good way, when it comes to managing web content)


http://data.southampton.ac.uk/dumps/profile/2013-04-11/profile.ttl
also
https://backstage.data.ox.ac.uk/stores/public/data/?graph=https://data.ox.ac.uk/graph/profile/data

Our current plan is to register a "well known URI" as 
/.well-known/openorg which will redirect to such a document and is 
intended as a way to get from the homepage of an organisation to its 
profile document.

This may or may not be the document which the organisation's 
self-assigned URI resolves to, but finding out an organisation's self 
assigned URI is much harder than their homepage, and also we've 
encountered systems where that URI returns the DESCRIBE for the URI 
which isn't actually all that helpful and can be very large.




-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg

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Received on Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:07:50 UTC