URI-s Play a Fundamental Role
One 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
e.g., the
same
SVG file could be annotated through other terms
URI-s ground RDF into the Web
e.g., information can be retrieved using existing tools
(Note: URI-s can be local ID-s like in HTML, too)
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
© 1994-2004, W3C (MIT,ERCIM,Keio)
Edinburgh, 7 April, 2004
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