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Uniform Resource Identifier
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string of characters used to identify a name of a resource on a network such as the internet
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 459 inbound references to Uniform Resource Identifier, and connects out to adaptive hypermedia, International Standard Book Number and digital object identifier.
Vinony files it under Application layer protocols, Harv and Sfn no-target errors and Internet protocols.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- URI
- Native name
- RFC 3986
- Status
- Active
- Organization
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Authors
- Tim Berners-Lee Roy Thomas Fielding Larry Masinter
- Domain
- World Wide Web
- Website
- datatracker .ietf .org /doc /html /rfc3986 #section-1 .1
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Uniform resource identifier diagram lk.png
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- P8168
- Agustina
- Commons category
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- described at URL
- tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
- short name
- URI
- exact match
- purl.org/dc/terms/URI
- P13411
- The King of Rome
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, such as resources on a webpage, email address, phone number, books, real-world objects such as people and places, and concepts. In particular, the resource need not be retrievable via the Internet, or any computer network.
URIs which provide a means of locating and retrieving information resources on a network (like the Internet, an Intranet or a computer file system) are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). URLs are therefore a subset of URIs. Other URIs provide only a unique name, without a means of locating or retrieving the resource or information about it; these are Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The web technologies that use URIs are not limited to web browsers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uniform Resource Identifier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.