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
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Ireland, Europe
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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
