---
title: "Example Dataset Definitions"
output:
rmarkdown::html_vignette:
md_extensions: -autolink_bare_uris
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Example Dataset Definitions}
%\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---
This page documents the illustrative IRIs used in the `dataset` package
vignettes. They are **examples only** and do not point to real datasets.
## Purpose
- To illustrate how IRIs can uniquely identify dataset elements.
- To provide dereferenceable links that pass CRAN checks.
- To show Linked Data best practice: one namespace doc, with fragments.
# Example Dataset Definitions For RDF
The base namespace in `vignette("rdf", package = "dataset")` is:
Although these example IRIs use `.html#` in the base namespace, the `.html` part
does not imply that the resource is literally an HTML file. In RDF, any absolute
IRI is valid. We use this form only for illustration, because the R package
documentation infrastructure is not designed to support full content
negotiation between human-readable HTML and machine-readable Turtle files.
In real publishing scenarios, a bare namespace ending with `/dataset#` is more
conventional.
---
## obs:1
Example observation 1 (not real data).
## obs:2
Example observation 2 (not real data).
## obs:3
Example observation 3 (not real data).
---
In real publishing scenarios, you would replace these with persistent URIs
that identify actual datasets and their observations. For example, a DOI-based identifier such as:
`https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14917851#obs:1`
could be used to refer to the first observation in a dataset archived at Zenodo.
## Machine-readable form
A Turtle serialization of the same example definitions is also available:
```
@prefix ex: .
@prefix rdfs: .
@prefix dcat: .
ex:obs1 a dcat:Observation ;
rdfs:label "Example observation 1 (not real data)" .
ex:obs2 a dcat:Observation ;
rdfs:label "Example observation 2 (not real data)" .
ex:obs3 a dcat:Observation ;
rdfs:label "Example observation 3 (not real data)" .
```
In fact, semantic applications know that they should not even read this HTML page, but instead go directly to the `dataset.ttl` version, as it is a World Wide Web standard to disseminate data and metadata.
👉 [Download dataset.ttl](https://dataset.dataobservatory.eu/examples/dataset.ttl)