On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:22:41PM +0100, Pete Johnston wrote:
> I confess I'm still a little bit hazey about whether/when we need to say
> "RDF URI reference" rather than "URI", but given that RDF Concepts uses
> the first form, I guess it's fine to stick with that when talking about
> things in the RDF graph.
According to Dan Connolly in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2005Mar/0006.html:
> re "2.1. Identify Terms with URI References."
> -- http://esw.w3.org/topic/VocabManagementNote
>
> The right term there URI. We identify with URIs.
>
> URI references are things used in data formats to abbreviate (or spell
> out in full) URIs.
>
> The historical problem where the term "URI" didn't include things with
> #fragments
> is now fixed in
>
> URI
> IETF STD 66, RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI):
> Generic Syntax, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter,
> January 2005. Available at <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>.
>
> see http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-refs
Tom
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Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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