"- Data is the new electricity. URIs are the conduction mechanism."
"- Data is Money while URIs are Currency."
"- Data is Money while URIs are Currency."
Quote by Kingsley Uyi Idehen (@kidehen)
"-Today's lesson, repeat after me
"#linkeddata relies on good URIs" - everything else is details..."
"#linkeddata relies on good URIs" - everything else is details..."
Guidelines and policies
- Draft documents:
- URI Patterns, published by UK Government Linked Data Working Group (@UKGovLD)
- Råd för beständiga länkar, Nationellt ramverk för öppna data, Kommunförbundet Stockholms län, Peter Krantz AB, PwC och Sveriges Kommuner och landsting med stöd av finansiering från Vinnova.
- A Linked Data enabled version of the Study on Persistent URIs with identification of best practices and recommendations on the topic for the Member States and the European Commission. (Kudos to @philarcher1)
- URI Patterns for Statistical Linked Data, from Sarven Capadisli (@csarven)
- URI Construction from Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group
- Best Practices URI Construction
- URI Design Principles: Creating Unique URIs for Government Linked Data (TWC RPI)
- Open Biology and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry Identifier Policy
- Providing and discovering definitions of URIs
- Wikidata URI Scheme
- Australian National Data Service: Persistent Identifiers
Some background reading
- Not from Tim BL: Web Security - "HTTPS Everywhere" harmful, when it comes to URIs
- URIs in Data Primer by @JeniT
- Give Me a Sign: What Do Things Mean on the Semantic Web? a blog post from Structured Dynamics CEO Michael K. Bergman.
- What Is a URI and Why Does It Matter? by Henry S. Thompson at Language Technology Group of HCRC in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
- Linked Data Strategy for Global Identity by Hugh Glaser and Harry Halpin
- Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures describing the significant economic and political issues with more profound consequences in the design, choice, assignment, withdrawal, and replacement of identifiers such as personal identification numbers, student numbers, and license numbers. Interesting insights in the problems associated with the Swedish PID (personal identification) number.
