Best practices document structure

General Guidelines

• A Best Practice implements one or more Use Case Requirements.

• A UC Requirement is motivated by one or more UC.

• A Best Practice may be a General Best Practice or a Specific Best Practice.

• A General Best Practice applies to all resources, while a Specific Best Practice applies to a specific resource.

• A resource may be a Dataset , a License or a Vocabulary. A resource is "something" that may be published or consumed.

• A Best Practice has a title, a description and one or more How to Sections.

• A How to Section specifies one possible way of implementing a Best Practice.

General Best Practices

GBP1. Resources should be available in a machine-readable format GBP2. Resources should have a unique identifier GBP3. Resources should be available in an open format GBP4. Resources should be described by metadata GBP5. Standard vocabularies should be used to describe resources (to define metadata) GBP6. Provenance information (about resources ?) should be available GBP7. Quality information (about resources ?) should be available GBP8. Usage information (about resources ?) should be available GBP9. Versioning information (about resources?) should be available

Specific Best Practices

Dataset Best Practices

Licenses Best Practices

Vocabularies Best Practices