Hi,
you might also find useful (to get a more complete view that includes licenses, provenance, etc.) to check out "Publishing Data about Data" http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc45 (from the book "Linked Data_Evolving the Web into a Global Space")

Best regards,
Myriam

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On 21/07/2011 11:47, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

Frans,

Forgot two things, sorry:

http://lod-cloud.net/void.ttl might provide you with some URI's for interlinking descriptions and we have a separate VoID discussion group [1] if you want to go into greater details ;)

Cheers,
    Michael

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!forum/void-discussion
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On 21 Jul 2011, at 11:43, Michael Hausenblas wrote:


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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LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
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






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