This resource explains why one should dereference a vocabulary when publishing it on the Web, and how to do so.
URL: https://linkingresearch.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/how-to-properly-publish-a-vocabulary-or-ontology-in-the-web-part-4-of-6/
Keywords: Dereferencibility, HTTP URIs, Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL)
Author: dgarijov
Date created: 2013-10-07 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P15M
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: professional
Interactivity type: expositive
- Ensures that when dereferenced by a Web browser, a URI returns a representation of the resource in human-readable HTML.
- Ensures that when dereferenced by an RDF application, a URI returns representation of the resource in the requested RDF serialization syntax.
- Understands that to be "dereferencable", a URI should be usable to retrieve a representation of the resource it identifies.