diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/examples-schema.yaml b/ogc/bblocks/examples-schema.yaml
index c54350c..c148a8f 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/examples-schema.yaml
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/examples-schema.yaml
@@ -1,135 +1,177 @@
 "$schema": https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema
 title: OGC Building Blocks examples schema
-type: array
-items:
-  type: object
-  anyOf:
-    - required:
-        - content
-    - required:
-        - snippets
-      properties:
-        snippets:
-          minItems: 1
-  properties:
-    title:
-      description: A title for this example
-      type: string
-    content:
-      description: Markdown contents to describe the example.
-      type: string
-    base-uri:
-      description: Base URI that will be used for semantic uplift (JSON -> JSON-LD -> Turtle).
-      type: string
-    base-output-filename:
-      description: |
-        Base filename that will be used for writing this example to its own file. Extension, if any, will be discarded.
-      type: string
-    snippets:
-      description: |
-        Collection of snippets to illustrate this example. Preferably, only one snippet per language
-        should be added here, as additional snippets in the same language can be created as different
-        examples.
-      type: array
-      items:
-        type: object
-        required:
-          - language
+$defs:
+
+  examples:
+    type: array
+    items:
+      $ref: '#/$defs/example'
+
+  example:
+    type: object
+    anyOf:
+      - required:
+          - content
+      - required:
+          - snippets
         properties:
-          language:
-            description: |
-              The language for this snippet. Can be a file format (such as 'jsonld' or 'turtle'),
-              a MIME type (e.g., 'text/html'), a programming language ('python'). 'plaintext' by default.
-            type: string
-          code:
-            description: Code block for the snippet. Either this property or 'ref' have to be provided.
-            type: string
-          ref:
-            description: |
-              A reference to a filename (relative to the examples.yaml file) with the contents of
-              this snippet, as an alternative to inlining them in the 'code' property.
-            type: string
-            format: uri-reference
-          base-uri:
-            description: |
-              Base URI that will be used when semantically uplifting this snippet. Overrides
-              that of the example, if any.
-            type: string
-          schema-ref:
-            description: |
-              A reference to a JSON schema or subschema that will be used to validate this snippet.
-              A full URL or a filename (relative to the building block's 'schema.yaml'), with or
-              without a fragment, can be provided. If only a fragment is provided, it will be
-              looked up inside the default 'schema.yaml'. If none provided, the default schema for
-              the building block will be employed.
-            type: string
-            format: uri-reference
-          doc-uplift-formats:
-            description: |
-              Uplifted snippet format, or array thereof, that will be added to the output documentation.
-              If omitted, both 'jsonld' and 'ttl' will be used; if empty array or null, no uplifted snippets
-              will be included in the documentation.
-            oneOf:
-              - type: string
-                enum: [jsonld, ttl]
-              - type: array
-                items:
-                  type: string
-                  enum: [jsonld, ttl]
-              - type: 'null'
-          shacl-closure:
-            description: |
-              List of Turtle documents (file names or URLs) that will be used as the SHACL closure graph. This list
-              will be merged with the one defined inside `bblock.json`, if any.
-            type: array
+          snippets:
+            minItems: 1
+    properties:
+      title:
+        description: A title for this example
+        type: string
+      content:
+        description: Markdown contents to describe the example.
+        type: string
+      base-uri:
+        description: Base URI that will be used for semantic uplift (JSON -> JSON-LD -> Turtle).
+        type: string
+      base-output-filename:
+        description: |
+          Base filename that will be used for writing this example to its own file. Extension, if any, will be discarded.
+        type: string
+      prefixes:
+        description: |
+          Prefixes for this example. Will be merged with top-level `prefixes`, if any, with the example
+          ones taking precedence.
+        $ref: '#/$defs/prefixes'
+      snippets:
+        description: |
+          Collection of snippets to illustrate this example. Preferably, only one snippet per language
+          should be added here, as additional snippets in the same language can be created as different
+          examples.
+        type: array
+        items:
+          $ref: '#/$defs/snippet'
+
+      transforms:
+        description: |
+          List of transforms for this example
+        type: array
+        items:
+          $ref: '#/$defs/transform'
+
+  snippet:
+    type: object
+    required:
+      - language
+    properties:
+      language:
+        description: |
+          The language for this snippet. Can be a file format (such as 'jsonld' or 'turtle'),
+          a MIME type (e.g., 'text/html'), a programming language ('python'). 'plaintext' by default.
+        type: string
+      code:
+        description: Code block for the snippet. Either this property or 'ref' have to be provided.
+        type: string
+      ref:
+        description: |
+          A reference to a filename (relative to the examples.yaml file) with the contents of
+          this snippet, as an alternative to inlining them in the 'code' property.
+        type: string
+        format: uri-reference
+      base-uri:
+        description: |
+          Base URI that will be used when semantically uplifting this snippet. Overrides
+          that of the example, if any.
+        type: string
+      schema-ref:
+        description: |
+          A reference to a JSON schema or subschema that will be used to validate this snippet.
+          A full URL or a filename (relative to the building block's 'schema.yaml'), with or
+          without a fragment, can be provided. If only a fragment is provided, it will be
+          looked up inside the default 'schema.yaml'. If none provided, the default schema for
+          the building block will be employed.
+        type: string
+        format: uri-reference
+      doc-uplift-formats:
+        description: |
+          Uplifted snippet format, or array thereof, that will be added to the output documentation.
+          If omitted, both 'jsonld' and 'ttl' will be used; if empty array or null, no uplifted snippets
+          will be included in the documentation.
+        oneOf:
+          - type: string
+            enum: [ jsonld, ttl ]
+          - type: array
             items:
               type: string
-          expand-level:
-            description: Default expand level for Treedoc Viewer, where applicable (JSON, YAML)
-            type: integer
-            minimum: 1
-        oneOf:
-          - required:
-            - code
-          - required:
-            - ref
-    transforms:
-      description: |
-        List of transforms for this example
-      type: array
-      items:
-        type: object
-        required:
-          - input-language
-          - output-language
-          - type
-        oneOf:
-          - required:
-              - code
-          - required:
-              - ref
-        properties:
-          input-language:
-            description: |
-              Input language of the code snippet from this example that will be transformed. It can correspond to a
-              manually-provided snippet, or to an uplifted one.
-            type: string
-          output-language:
-            description: |
-              Output language of the transformed snippet.
-            type: string
-          type:
-            description: |
-              The type of this transform. "jq" or "shacl" are examples of automatically processed ones.
-            type: string
-          description:
-            description: Textual description of this transformation. Markdown is accepted.
-            type: string
-          code:
-            description: Code contents of this transformation (e.g., jq script or SHACL rules file).
-            type: string
-          ref:
-            description: |
-              Location of a file with the code contents of this transformation (instead of
-              providing them inline through the "code" property).
-            type: string
+              enum: [ jsonld, ttl ]
+          - type: 'null'
+      shacl-closure:
+        description: |
+          List of Turtle documents (file names or URLs) that will be used as the SHACL closure graph. This list
+          will be merged with the one defined inside `bblock.json`, if any.
+        type: array
+        items:
+          type: string
+      expand-level:
+        description: Default expand level for Treedoc Viewer, where applicable (JSON, YAML)
+        type: integer
+        minimum: 1
+    oneOf:
+      - required:
+          - code
+      - required:
+          - ref
+
+  transform:
+    type: object
+    required:
+      - input-language
+      - output-language
+      - type
+    oneOf:
+      - required:
+          - code
+      - required:
+          - ref
+    properties:
+      input-language:
+        description: |
+          Input language of the code snippet from this example that will be transformed. It can correspond to a
+          manually-provided snippet, or to an uplifted one.
+        type: string
+      output-language:
+        description: |
+          Output language of the transformed snippet.
+        type: string
+      type:
+        description: |
+          The type of this transform. "jq" or "shacl" are examples of automatically processed ones.
+        type: string
+      description:
+        description: Textual description of this transformation. Markdown is accepted.
+        type: string
+      code:
+        description: Code contents of this transformation (e.g., jq script or SHACL rules file).
+        type: string
+      ref:
+        description: |
+          Location of a file with the code contents of this transformation (instead of
+          providing them inline through the "code" property).
+        type: string
+
+  prefixes:
+    type: object
+    description: Map of prefix -> URI that will be used for Turtle resources
+    additionalProperties:
+      type: string
+    examples:
+      - dct: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
+        dcat: http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#
+      - skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
+        rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
+        schema: http://schema.org/
+
+oneOf:
+  - $ref: '#/$defs/examples'
+  - type: object
+    properties:
+      prefixes:
+        description: Default prefixes for all examples
+        $ref: '#/$defs/prefixes'
+      examples:
+        $ref: '#/$defs/examples'
+    required:
+      - examples
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/models.py b/ogc/bblocks/models.py
index 8a9a7c4..04c299c 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/models.py
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/models.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def __init__(self, identifier: str, metadata_file: Path,
         self.assets_path = ap if ap.is_dir() else None
 
         self.examples_file = fp / 'examples.yaml'
-        self.examples = self._load_examples()
+        self._load_examples()
 
         self.tests_dir = fp / 'tests'
 
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ def get(self, item, default=None):
 
     def _load_examples(self):
         examples = None
+        prefixes = {}
         if self.examples_file.is_file():
             examples = load_yaml(self.examples_file)
             if not examples:
@@ -141,6 +142,10 @@ def _load_examples(self):
             except Exception as e:
                 raise BuildingBlockError('Error validating building block examples (examples.yaml)') from e
 
+            if isinstance(examples, dict):
+                prefixes = examples.get('prefixes', {})
+                examples = examples['examples']
+
             for example in examples:
                 for snippet in example.get('snippets', ()):
                     if 'ref' in snippet:
@@ -152,7 +157,11 @@ def _load_examples(self):
                         # Load transform code from "ref"
                         ref = transform['ref'] if is_url(transform['ref']) else self.files_path / transform['ref']
                         transform['code'] = load_file(ref)
-        return examples
+                if prefixes:
+                    example['prefixes'] = {**prefixes, **example.get('prefixes', {})}
+
+        self.example_prefixes = prefixes
+        self.examples = examples
 
     @property
     def schema_contents(self):
diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/templates/json-full/index.json b/ogc/bblocks/templates/json-full/index.json
index 5d0b4b0..da28f99 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/templates/json-full/index.json
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/templates/json-full/index.json
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ if bblock.description:
     output['description'] = bblock.description
 if bblock.examples:
     output['examples'] = bblock.examples
+if bblock.example_prefixes:
+    output['examplePrefixes'] = bblock.example_prefixes
 if bblock.annotated_schema:
     output['annotatedSchema'] = bblock.annotated_schema_contents
 if git_repo:
diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/validate.py b/ogc/bblocks/validate.py
index 87ca32c..0267458 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/validate.py
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/validate.py
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ def _validate_resource(bblock: BuildingBlock,
                        schema_ref: str | None = None,
                        require_fail: bool | None = None,
                        resource_url: str | None = None,
-                       example_index: tuple[int, int] | None = None) -> ValidationReportItem | None:
+                       example_index: tuple[int, int] | None = None,
+                       prefixes: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> ValidationReportItem | None:
     if require_fail is None:
         require_fail = filename.stem.endswith('-fail') and not example_index
 
@@ -184,7 +185,8 @@ def _validate_resource(bblock: BuildingBlock,
                                         contents=resource_contents,
                                         base_uri=base_uri,
                                         additional_shacl_closures=additional_shacl_closures,
-                                        schema_ref=schema_ref)
+                                        schema_ref=schema_ref,
+                                        prefixes=prefixes)
             any_validator_run = any_validator_run or (result is not False)
 
     except Exception as unknown_exc:
@@ -192,7 +194,7 @@ def _validate_resource(bblock: BuildingBlock,
             section=ValidationReportSection.UNKNOWN,
             message=','.join(traceback.format_exception(unknown_exc)),
             is_error=True,
-            is_global=True,
+            is_global=False,
             payload={
                 'exception': unknown_exc.__class__.__qualname__,
             }
@@ -324,6 +326,7 @@ def validate_test_resources(bblock: BuildingBlock,
                     schema_ref=snippet.get('schema-ref'),
                     resource_url=snippet.get('ref'),
                     require_fail=False,
+                    prefixes=example.get('prefixes'),
                 )
                 if example_result:
                     all_results.append(example_result)
diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/validation/__init__.py b/ogc/bblocks/validation/__init__.py
index a87d5ac..466b0ec 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/validation/__init__.py
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/validation/__init__.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ def validate(self, filename: Path, output_filename: Path,
                  base_uri: str | None = None,
                  resource_url: str | None = None,
                  require_fail: bool | None = None,
+                 prefixes: dict[str, str] | None = None,
                  **kwargs) -> bool | None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
diff --git a/ogc/bblocks/validation/rdf.py b/ogc/bblocks/validation/rdf.py
index 46276fb..0ff84bc 100644
--- a/ogc/bblocks/validation/rdf.py
+++ b/ogc/bblocks/validation/rdf.py
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ def __init__(self, bblock: BuildingBlock, register: BuildingBlockRegister):
                     self.shacl_errors.append(f"Error processing {shacl_file}: {str(e)}")
             inherited_shacl_rules[shacl_bblock] = bblock_shacl_files
 
-        for shacle_closure in bblock.shaclClosures or ():
+        for shacl_closure in bblock.shaclClosures or ():
             try:
-                self.closure_graph.parse(bblock.resolve_file(shacle_closure), format='turtle')
+                self.closure_graph.parse(bblock.resolve_file(shacl_closure), format='turtle')
             except HTTPError as e:
                 self.shacl_errors.append(f"Error retrieving {e.url}: {e}")
             except Exception as e:
-                self.shacl_errors.append(f"Error processing {shacle_closure}: {str(e)}")
+                self.shacl_errors.append(f"Error processing {shacl_closure}: {str(e)}")
 
         bblock.metadata['shaclRules'] = inherited_shacl_rules
 
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ def __init__(self, bblock: BuildingBlock, register: BuildingBlockRegister):
 
     def _load_graph(self, filename: Path, output_filename: Path, report: ValidationReportItem,
                     contents: str | None = None,
-                    base_uri: str | None = None) -> Graph | None | bool:
+                    base_uri: str | None = None,
+                    prefixes: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> Graph | None | bool:
         graph = False
         if filename.suffix == '.json':
             if self.jsonld_error:
@@ -242,6 +243,13 @@ def _load_graph(self, filename: Path, output_filename: Path, report: ValidationR
             rdf_format = 'ttl' if output_filename.suffix == '.ttl' else 'json-ld'
             try:
                 if contents:
+                    # Prepend prefixes
+                    if prefixes:
+                        contents = '\n'.join(f"@prefix {k}: <{v}> ." for k, v in prefixes.items()) + '\n' + contents
+                        report.add_entry(ValidationReportEntry(
+                            section=ValidationReportSection.TURTLE,
+                            message=f"Prefixes are defined for {', '.join(prefixes.keys())}"
+                        ))
                     graph = Graph().parse(data=contents, format=rdf_format)
                     report.add_entry(ValidationReportEntry(
                         section=ValidationReportSection.FILES,
@@ -270,8 +278,9 @@ def validate(self, filename: Path, output_filename: Path, report: ValidationRepo
                  contents: str | None = None,
                  base_uri: str | None = None,
                  additional_shacl_closures: list[str | Path] | None = None,
+                 prefixes: dict[str, str] | None = None,
                  **kwargs) -> bool | None:
-        graph = self._load_graph(filename, output_filename, report, contents, base_uri)
+        graph = self._load_graph(filename, output_filename, report, contents, base_uri, prefixes)
 
         if graph is False:
             return False