Representing dataset statistics

Dear VoIDers

(Please cc answers to public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org)

I am involved in an activity within the W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group to specify a set of guidelines for describing datasets. We are well on our way to finalising our community recommendation, you can find the working draft of our note at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zGQJ9bO_dSc8taINTNHdnjYEzUyYkbjglrcuUPuoITw/edit#

I am particularly interested in gaining your insight on the dataset statistics that we are aiming to capture and represent using VoID. The following link will take you to the correct section of the document.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zGQJ9bO_dSc8taINTNHdnjYEzUyYkbjglrcuUPuoITw/edit#heading=h.citrvpsndja

As you will see we go beyond the simple statistics that are represented in the VoID vocabulary. (The motivation for all these statistics has come from the experiences of the Bio2RDF community.) Specifically, are we violating the VoID predicates and linksets in the way we are using these constructs?

Best regards,

Alasdair


Alasdair J G Gray
Lecturer in Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
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