The human-readable web page that a dataset's persistent identifier (typically a DataCite DOI) resolves to, presenting the dataset's title, creators, description, identifiers, dates, version history, related works, access conditions, and a link to download or request the data.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A Dryad dataset's landing page at datadryad.org showing the dataset's metadata and a download link.
Is an instance
A Zenodo dataset's landing page with citation suggestion and full metadata.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A direct link to a CSV file (no metadata page) is not a dataset landing page.
Not an instance
A search-result hit is not a landing page.

Editorial commentary

Dataset landing pages are the functional equivalent of journal article landing pages for data. They are the user-facing layer of the persistent identifier: when a DOI is clicked, the resolved page is the landing page. Best-practice landing pages embed schema.org Dataset markup so the page is machine-readable by Google Dataset Search and similar services. They also typically link to the dataset’s machine-readable metadata in multiple formats (DataCite XML, JSON-LD, CSL JSON). For withdrawn datasets, the landing page becomes a tombstone (see DOI tombstone).

References

Starr J. et al., 'Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications', PeerJ Computer Science 1, 2015.

Also known as

Landing page (dataset)

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Dataset landing page"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-landing-page" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-landing-page",
  "name": "Dataset landing page",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-landing-page",
  "description": "The human-readable web page that a dataset's persistent identifier (typically a DataCite DOI) resolves to, presenting the dataset's title, creators, description, identifiers, dates, version history, related works, access conditions, and a link to download or request the data.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/data-infrastructure#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-landing-page",
  "sameAs": [
    "Landing page (dataset)"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:21",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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