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URI-s Play a Fundamental Role
- You can uniquely identify all resources on the web
- Uniqueness is vital to make consistent statements
- Anybody can create metadata on any resource on the Web
- eg, the same SVG file could be annotated through other terms
- It becomes easy to merge metadata
- applications may merge the SVG annotations coming from different sources
- this can be done because they refer to the same URI-s!
| Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices | München, 17 June, 2003 | 7 (34) |