- From: Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:45:57 +0100
- To: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
- Cc: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > I have just placed a Linked Data dataset online and now I am struggling with > finding the best way to publish the metadata of the dataset. I wonder if > there are best practices for referencing a dataset and its metadata, and for > linking the two. > > I did find out that using the Vocabulary of Interlinked Data (VoID) is a > good way to publish the metadata of a dataset. But I still need some > guidance. I have come up with three questions: > > 1) Is it common practice/recommendable to regard a dataset a resource? If it > is, then all datasets should have a URI, right? Yes. > 2) If having a dataset URI is a good thing, what should be behind the URI? > Should dereferencing the URI lead to the dataset metadata (a VoID file for > example)? Yes. > 3) If dereferencing a dataset URI leads to the dataset metadata, should > there be separate HTML and RDF versions of the metadata? Or is it better to > have a HTML page with embedded (RDFa) RDF data? Either is good, though there is a chance, I suppose, that RDFa might not be supported by all consuming tools. This might be balanced against publishing in RDFa being more likely to be correct and up to date. > > Thanks in advance for your help, > Frans
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