Understands that a “real-world” thing may need to be named with a URI distinct from the URI for information about that thing. – Linked Data for Professional Education

What's a URI and Why Does It Matter?

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 06:46:13 +0000

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 meant, as well as the ways it is used now and the direction in which it seems to be evolving. A key point is made regarding the difference between resources and their representations.

URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/WhatAreURIs/
Keywords: HTTP URIs, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Author: Thompson, Henry
Date created: 2010-08-26 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P15M
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive

thing-described-by.org

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 06:46:01 +0000

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 people, cars or concepts in an ontology.

URL: http://thing-described-by.org/
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Dereferencability, 303 Redirect
Author: Booth, David
Date created: 2010-04-25 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P15M
Educational use: instruction
Interactivity type: mixed

Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:45:33 +0000

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 designed both to encourage those that definitively own reference data to make it available for re-use, and to give those that have data that could be linked, the confidence to re-use a URI set that is not under their direct control.

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/60975/designing-URI-sets-uk-public-sector.pdf
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Dereferencability, Content negotiation, Government Open Data
Author: Davidson, Paul
Publisher: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Council’s Information Domain
Date created: 2009-09-10 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P30M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment

The URI, URL, and Linked Data Meme's Generic HTTP URI

Thu, 29 Dec 2016 06:44:03 +0000

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 historical documents that provide insight into how the use of the term "resource" has evolved within the Web community.

URL: https://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/doc/[email protected]/weblog/[email protected]%27s%20BLOG%20%5B127%5D/1567
Keywords: HTTP URIs
Author: Idehen, Kingsley
Date created: 2010-03-28 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P10M

Design and Manage Persistent URIs

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:32:39 +0000

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 persistence important; How does one design and manage persistent URIs for data resources?

URL: http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/design-and-manage-persitent-uris
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Persistence, Disambiguation, Dereferencability, 303 URIs, Content negotiation
Author: Goedertier, Stijn
Publisher: PwC
Date created: 2013-06-06 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P20M

Multi-Agent and Semantic Web Systems: Linked Open Data

Abi Evans — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 06:00:09 +0000

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 at a wide variety of topics, focusing in particular on Linked Open Data principles for publishing data, the purpose of using URIs, and content negotiation.

URL: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/masws/lectures-14/9-full.pdf
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Content negotiiation, 5 Star Linked Open Data, Linked Data Prnciples, Linked Open Data
Author: McNeill, Fiona
Date created: 2013-02-14 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P30M
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive

Usage of Linked Data: Introduction and Application Scenarios

Abi Evans — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:33:32 +0000

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 can be published over the Web, how it can be queried, and what are the possible use cases and benefits. NOTE: These slides represent material from several lessons that comprised a larger "module" of the EUCLID Project. As such, they cover a wider range of topics than most resources.

URL: http://www.slideshare.net/EUCLIDproject/usage-of-linked-data-introduction-and-application-scenarios?related=4
Keywords: Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, Web of Data, Vocabulary, RDF Schema, Web Ontology Language (OWL), SPARQL, Triple
Author: Norton, Barry
Publisher: EUCLID Project
Date created: 2013-01-18 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P40M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: professional
Interactivity type: expositive

Challenges with Linked Data in Libraries

Abi Evans — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:45:23 +0000

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 Linked Data: Linked data standards; multiple URIs; sophisticated query language issues; the challenge of navigating a different set of data silos. All will require libraries to re-think their approach as they move toward Linked Data.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZOluoM0Vo
Keywords: Libraries Archives and Museums (LAMs), HTTP URIs
Author: Moulaison, Heather
Publisher: ALCTS
Date created: 2013-12-20 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P1H
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: teacher-educationSpecialist
Interactivity type: expositive