Web identifiers: URIs

• Core bit of Web Architecture

  • Constraint: Identify with URIs
  • Principle of URI assignment
    • URIfy resources others wish to refer to
  • Good Practice: avoid aliases
  • Good Practice: avoid ambiguity

• In Web Hyperlinks, explicit URIs primarily name link targets

  • Either in a source, e.g., <a href=…
  • Or in a target, e.g., <a name=…
  • But the source tends to be a target for others
  • Link arcs tend to remain unnamed

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