Understands that a "real-world" thing may need to be named with a URI distinct from the URI for information about that thing.
What's a URI and Why Does It Matter?
This brief article introduces the terminology and issues surrounding URIs and their role on the Web. This includes some historical context of what URI originally [...]
thing-described-by.org
Thing-described-by.org is a 303-redirect service. It provides a convenient mechanism for minting dereferenceable http URIs for things that are not necessarily web resources, such as [...]
Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector
This document defines the design considerations and guidance by which UK public sector Universal Resource Identifier (URI) sets should be developed and maintained. They are [...]
The URI, URL, and Linked Data Meme's Generic HTTP URI
In this post, the author tries to clear up some confusion between the terms URI and URL. Includes links to other posts as well as [...]
Design and Manage Persistent URIs
Slide presentation used as part of a training module aiming to answer the following questions: What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Why is URI [...]
Multi-Agent and Semantic Web Systems: Linked Open Data
This slide presentation of lecture material was used as part of a course given at The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. This lecture looked [...]
Usage of Linked Data: Introduction and Application Scenarios
This slide presentation introduces the main principles of Linked Data, as well as underlying technologies and background standards. It provides basic knowledge for how data [...]
Challenges with Linked Data in Libraries
This talk addresses the obstacles that libraries will have to overcome in order to integrate library data into the Semantic Web reap the benefits of [...]