Effective RDF Resource Identifiers for Integration of Structured Data Sources.
Ian Emmons · 2014
Abstract—Based upon extensive experience in the use of semantic technologies to integrate structured data from disparate systems, the author recommends a set of best practices for creating IRIs for RDF resources. Particular attention is paid to avoiding unnecessary coreferences in scenarios where data is drawn from a structured, non-semantic source of record, issues that commonly arise in Department of Defense (DoD), Intelli-gence Community (IC), and government contracting scenarios, as well as other common pitfalls. I. BACKGROUND At the very foundation of the Resource Description Frame-work (RDF), before we can ever write down a single triple, we encounter the notion of the International Resource Identifier (IRI) as a means to create identifiers with global validity.1 The Web has proven that the IRI is in fact a good solution to this