2.1: Identification
Identify things by a URI/URL. Other Information:
The ability to identify things by a URI/URL is the foundation of the Internet. Best practices for "open government data" depend
on applying the architecture described in Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1 [WEBARCH]. If you give permanent, patterned
and/or discoverable URI/URLs to your data, processes and people will be able to find and use it more easily. URI/URLs can
be used in databases and metadata as universal, unique identifiers (e.g. by appending a serial number or other internal naming
system to a domain: http://www.example.gov/objects/optional-hierarchy/serial12345678.html). Use internal IDs to identify specific
data for machine re-use (e.g., http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html). By using URIs, and incorporating internal links
inside large files or documents, people can authoritatively cite the information on their own websites.
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