Tim Berners-Lee on “Putting Gov’t Data online”

Footnote: Do’s and Don’ts

• Do pick URIs which are likely to be persistent
• Do put RDF metadata giving the license.
• Do use the RDF and SPARQL standards
• Make sure your human readable pages are accessible.
• Do NOT hide data files inside zip files unless they are also available directly.
• Do NOT put data up in proprietary formats.
• Do NOT wait until you have a complete schema or ontology to publish data.
• Do NOT seek to replace existing data systems.

Putting Government Data online