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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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Dr. Thomas Baker                                 [log in to unmask]
Director, Specifications and Documentation
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative