- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:47:46 +0100
- To: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
- Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Frans, Forgot two things, sorry: http://lod-cloud.net/void.ttl might provide you with some URI's for interlinking descriptions and we have a separate VoID discussion group [1] if you want to go into greater details ;) Cheers, Michael [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!forum/void-discussion -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html On 21 Jul 2011, at 11:43, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > > Frans, > > Please refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/void/ as this is the official > Note ... > > >> 1) Is it common practice/recommendable to regard a dataset a >> resource? If it is, then all datasets should have a URI, right? > > Yes, all datasets (and sub-sets) should have a URI. > > >> 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)? > > > As described in http://www.w3.org/TR/void/#discovery > >> 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? > > Up to you. If you want to be Linked Data compliant (remember the 3rd > principle ;) than you'll serve *some* structured data from the URI. > RDFa is just as fine as anything else there, really. > > You might be interested to learn about the 'bigger' picture via http://linked-data-life-cycles.info > > Cheers, > Michael > -- > Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow > LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre > DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute > NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway > Ireland, Europe > Tel. +353 91 495730 > http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ > http://sw-app.org/about.html > > On 21 Jul 2011, at 11:35, Frans Knibbe 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? >> 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)? >> 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? >> >> Thanks in advance for your help, >> Frans > >
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