Just a quick fyi, as i need to read this thread still... Have a look at
'research data Australia', lots of examples of human description of
datasets. Though lots more to be done on machine readable datasets. /dff
On Jul 12, 2012 9:24 PM, "Richard Wallis" <richard.wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> On 12/07/2012 12:15, "Leigh Dodds" <ld@talis.com> wrote:
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> >>>>> As well as a short description,
> >>>>> pointers to fuller documentation are also useful.
> >>>>
> >>> I think discussionUrl would be useful *as well* but a page to say how
> >>> a dataset was collated or is curated might be a useful addition to the
> >>> description. Would just be a page about the dataset.
> >>
> >> Wouldn't that be just 'schema:url'?
> >
> > Perhaps, but not necessarily. Depends whether you would expect to see
> > a full set of data model or data analysis documentation right on the
> > homepage of the dataset itself. I think in most cases these would be
> > separate resources.
>
> I suppose it depends on who it is for - a human would probably expect to
> see
> that stuff linked from the dataset home page. If you are talking about
> specific links to things a machine might follow, then specific attributes
> may be relevant here.
>
> ~Richard.
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