- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:27:21 +0100
- To: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>, Keith Alexander <ka@talis.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
> But is this really common practice nowadays? Take DBpedia for > example. What is the URI of the DBpedia dataset? Is it http://dbpedia.org? > That does not seem to resolve to a set of metadata. Did you have a look at the URI I gave you? I mean http://lod-cloud.net/void.ttl BTW, some 30% [1] of the LOD cloud datasets are using VoID ... > Is there a general way of obtaining datasets URIs? Not to my knowledge. We're working on it in LATC [2] - Keith? Cheers, Michael [1] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/state/#data-set-level-metadata [2] http://latc-project.eu/ -- 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 15:19, Frans Knibbe wrote: > > Thanks for the replies. It seems that there is agreement that a > dataset should have a URI and that dereferencing that URI should > return metadata about the dataset. That is good to know. > > But is this really common practice nowadays? Take DBpedia for > example. What is the URI of the DBpedia dataset? Is it http://dbpedia.org? > That does not seem to resolve to a set of metadata. > > Is there a general way of obtaining datasets URIs? > > I can imagine an RDF dataset comprising all known dataset URIs. And > of course that dataset will have a URI itself. Does such a dataset > exist at the moment? > > Regards, > Frans > > > On 2011-07-21 12:35, 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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