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Best practices to create URIs for datasets

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Published on: 13/05/2013 Discussion Archived

 

The introduction of a persistent and standardised identification of resources is a challenge and a commitment at the same time.

The Publications Office has put forward a proposal for an URI template for the EU Open Data Portal. The proposed template tries to combine two requirements: to provide a guideline for data providers, which have not yet defined an URI scheme for their datasets and to provide the possibility of the integration of existing URI schemas into referencing mechanism of the ODP.

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Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 13/05/2013 - 14:45

ISA has a also published a study on good practices for designing and managing persistent URIs drawing upon the experiences of Member States, EU institutions, EU-funded projects and other initiatives. 

The study is available here.

Makx DEKKERS
Makx DEKKERS Mon, 13/05/2013 - 15:35

The ISA study is already referenced in the DCAT-AP specification. If you provide the URL of the proposal for an URI templet from the Publications Office, I'll include it in section 11.1.

Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 14/05/2013 - 11:01

What about usingor aligning on DataCite (http://www.datacite.org/) which is based on DOI. This is being adopted by several statistical agencies around the globe (http://www.datacite.org/members). I'm concerned here by having too many different ways to create URIs.

Makx DEKKERS
Makx DEKKERS Mon, 20/05/2013 - 14:58

I can certainly refer to DataCite in the specification (section 7.3.3). I can also note about the potential use of DataCite as a possible approach to URI assignment.

Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 20/05/2013 - 15:02

For our much smaller organisation, we use a cut down version of this, but I agree with 90% of it.

Our notable variation/innovation/herasy is to use a sub-domain for URI resolution; http:/id.southampton.ac.uk/ so that the data does not have to be hosted in as strict a way as the URIs. Long term we anticipate different URIs being passed to various services to resolve.

It also *massively* improves the initial understanding of RDF to have a stand alone domain for our persistant URIs which makes them much more clearly distingished from the data uris.

Makx DEKKERS
Makx DEKKERS Tue, 09/07/2013 - 12:18

Consideration    

It could indeed be helpful to point implementers to best practice for URIs.

 

Proposed resolution    

Add a link to DataCite

 

Proposed action  

Update specification, adding a paragraph to section 11.3: “Several statistical agencies around the world are adopting DataCite URIS [footnote: http://www.datacite.org/]. 

Makx DEKKERS
Makx DEKKERS Thu, 01/08/2013 - 14:21

The proposed resolution was rejected by the WG in the meeting on 18 July 2013, see report at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/document/dcat-application-profile-wg-virtual-meeting-2013-07-18. 

No mention of DataCite will be made in ssction 11. Dataset will only be mentioned in the list of examples of identifiers in section 7.3.3

Resolution implemented in draft 0.04 at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/document/dcat-application-profile-data-portals-europe-draft-final-text

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