Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
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An Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a Character Sequence that uniquely identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: FOAF Ontology, World Wide Web, Information Science Ontology, Web Ontology Language, International Standard Book Number (ISBN) System.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier Retrieved:2021-9-19.
- A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies. URIs may be used to identify anything, including real-world objects, such as people and places, concepts, or information resources such as web pages and books. Some URIs provide a means of locating and retrieving information resources on a network (either on the Internet or on another private network, such as a computer filesystem or an Intranet); these are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). A URL provides the location of the resource. A URI identifies the resource by name at the specified location or URL. Other URIs provide only a unique name, without a means of locating or retrieving the resource or information about it, these are Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The web technologies that use URIs are not limited to web browsers. URIs are used to identify anything described using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), for example, concepts that are part of an ontology defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and people who are described using the Friend of a Friend vocabulary would each have an individual URI.