[uf-new] Microformat for Datasets

[Jordan Mendelson]

I've spent a good amount of time looking at them and they've done a great job with defining what kinds of metadata is needed. It is though, incredibly heavy because of the goals of Linked Datasets in having online access to data in a kind of giant meta-database.

I'm interested in something far more modest: just the ability to discover datasets and easily pull out basic attributes. Most public datasets already have a webpage that describes them which contains all this information; they just isn't structured in any way that a search engine could easily identify as a dataset. Having a microformat seems like a natural way of doing that.

Does it sound like a good idea?


Jordan


> I won't bug you with the "guidelines" on how to come up with new microformats because you can dig that up from the wiki and then collaborate with the community.
> 
> If you do end up developing a new microformats for datasets, I suggest to take a look at VoID [1] and DCAT [2] (RDF vocabularies) as well.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/void/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
> 
> -Sarven
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