Documentation: Datasets

This page documents the pattern to use to link to a dataset. You don't need to link to every open dataset, just ones that are useful for autodiscovery. If you have lots of datasets then link to a dataset cataglouge rather than list everything.

Prefixes

The examples on this page require the following prefixes to be defined at the top of your OPD:

@prefix oo: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>.
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .

Pattern

<DATASET-URL> 
    oo:organization <ORG-URI> ;
    oo:contact <mailto:CONTACT-EMAIL> ;
    oo:corrections <mailto:CORRECTIONS-EMAIL> ;
    dcterms:subject <http://purl.org/openorg/theme/THEME> ;
    dcterms:conformsTo <CONFIRMS-URL> ;
    dcterms:license <LICENSE-URL> .

Recommended/example URI's' for different datasets

Equipment/Facility Datasets

dcterms:subject

This descibes what the dataset is about with some example url:

http://purl.org/openorg/theme/Capabilities
http://purl.org/openorg/theme/Equipment
http://purl.org/openorg/theme/Facilities

dcterms:conformsTo

This descibes what the file format of the dataset is:

RDF: http://openorg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/Facilities_and_Equipment
Uniquip (as csv,tsv or Excel Spreadsheet): http://equipment.data.ac.uk/uniquip
Kit Catalogue: http://equipment.data.ac.uk/kitcat-items-json
N8 RDF: http://equipment.n8research.org.uk/research-equipment.html

An example equipment dataset

<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/opd/equipment.xls>
    oo:organization <http://id.learning-provider.data.ac.uk/ukprn/10007760> ;
    oo:corrections <mailto:t.daviter@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> ;
    oo:contact <mailto:a.tribe@bbk.ac.uk> ;
    dcterms:subject <http://purl.org/openorg/theme/Facilities> ;
    dcterms:conformsTo <http://equipment.data.ac.uk/uniquip> ;
    dcterms:license <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> .

Reasearch Outputs Datasets

Research output datasets use <http://purl.org/openorg/theme/ResearchOutputs> to descibe that they are a reasearch outputs dataset. and the most common format (dcterms:conformsTo) is a OAI-PMH endpoint with the uri <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html> For example:

<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2>
    dcterms:conformsTo <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html> ;
    dcterms:license <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/> ;
    dcterms:subject <http://purl.org/openorg/theme/ResearchOutputs> ;
    oo:contact <mailto:eprints@soton.ac.uk> ;
    oo:corrections <mailto:eprints@soton.ac.uk> ;
    oo:organization <http://id.southampton.ac.uk/> .

dcterms:license

This descibes the license for the dataset:

OGL - The (UK) Open Government License for Public Sector Information: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/
ODCA - Open Data Commons Attribution License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/
CC0 - Public Domain Dedication: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/