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)
<http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/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
