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<h3>The Referent of an IRI</h3>
<p>The <a>resource</a> <a title="denote">denoted</a> by an <a title="IRI">IRI</a>
- is also called its <dfn>referent</dfn>. For some IRIs with particular
- meanings, such as those identifying XSD datatypes, the referent is
- fixed by this specification. For all other IRIs, what exactly is
- denoted by any given IRI is not defined by this specification. Other
- specifications may fix IRI referents, or apply other constraints on
- what may be the referent of any IRI.</p>
+ is also called its <dfn>referent</dfn>. For some IRIs with particular
+ meanings, such as those identifying XSD datatypes, the referent is
+ fixed by this specification. For all other IRIs, what exactly is
+ denoted by any given IRI is not defined by this specification. Other
+ specifications may fix IRI referents, or apply other constraints on
+ what may be the referent of any IRI.</p>
<p>Guidelines for determining the <a>referent</a> of an <a title="IRI">IRI</a> are
provided in other documents, like
- <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/">Architecture of the
- World Wide Web, Volume One</a></em> [[WEBARCH]] and
- <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/">Cool URIs for the
- Semantic Web</a></em> [[COOLURIS]].
- A very brief, informal and partial account follows:</p>
+ <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/">Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One</a></em> [[WEBARCH]]
+ and <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/">Cool URIs for the Semantic Web</a></em> [[COOLURIS]].
+ A very brief, informal, and partial account follows:</p>
<ul>
- <li>IRIs have global scope: Two different appearances of an IRI
- <a>denote</a> the same <a>resource</a>.</li>
-
- <li>By social convention, the
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-ownership">IRI owner</a>
- [[WEBARCH]] gets to say what the intended (or usual)
- referent of an <a title="IRI">IRI</a> is. Applications and users need not
- abide by this intended denotation, but there may be a loss of
- interoperability with other applications and users if they do
- not do so.</li>
+ <li>IRIs have global scope by design. Thus, two different appearances
+ of an IRI identify the same <a>resource</a>. RDF is based on this principle
+ and violations of it might lead to inconsistencies or interoperability problems.</li>
- <li>The IRI owner can establish the intended <a>referent</a>
- by means of a specification or other document that explains
- what is denoted. For example, the
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/">Organization Ontology
- document</a> [[VOCAB-ORG]] specifies the intended referents
- of various IRIs that start with
- <code>http://www.w3.org/ns/org#</code>.</li>
+ <li>By social convention, the
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-ownership">IRI owner</a>
+ [[WEBARCH]] gets to say what the intended (or usual)
+ referent of an <a title="IRI">IRI</a> is. Applications and users need not
+ abide by this intended denotation, but there may be a loss of
+ interoperability with other applications and users if they do
+ not do so.</li>
- <li>A good way of communicating the intended referent
- is to set up the IRI so that it
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-dereference">dereferences</a>
- [[WEBARCH]] to such a document.</li>
+ <li>The IRI owner can establish the intended <a>referent</a>
+ by means of a specification or other document that explains
+ what is denoted. For example, the
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/">Organization Ontology document</a> [[VOCAB-ORG]]
+ specifies the intended referents of various IRIs that start with
+ <code>http://www.w3.org/ns/org#</code>.</li>
- <li>Such a document can, in fact, be an <a>RDF document</a>
- that describes the denoted resource by means of
- <a title="RDF statement">RDF statements</a>.</li>
+ <li>A good way of communicating the intended referent
+ is to set up the IRI so that it
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-dereference">dereferences</a> [[WEBARCH]]
+ to such a document.</li>
+
+ <li>Such a document can, in fact, be an <a>RDF document</a>
+ that describes the denoted resource by means of
+ <a title="RDF statement">RDF statements</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Perhaps the most important characteristic of <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>
- in web architecture is that they can be
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-dereference">dereferenced</a>,
- and hence serve as starting points for interactions with a remote server.
- This specification is not concerned with such interactions.
- It does not define an interaction model. It only treats IRIs as globally
- unique identifiers in a graph data model that describes resources.
- However, those interactions are critical to the concept of
- <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html">Linked Data</a></em> [[LINKED-DATA]],
- which makes use of the RDF data model and serialization formats.</p>
+ in web architecture is that they can be
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-dereference">dereferenced</a>,
+ and hence serve as starting points for interactions with a remote server.
+ This specification is not concerned with such interactions.
+ It does not define an interaction model. It only treats IRIs as globally
+ unique identifiers in a graph data model that describes resources.
+ However, those interactions are critical to the concept of
+ <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html">Linked Data</a></em> [[LINKED-DATA]],
+ which makes use of the RDF data model and serialization formats.</p>
</section>
<section id="vocabularies">
@@ -1319,7 +1317,7 @@
<h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
<p>The editors acknowledge valuable contributions from Thomas Baker,
- Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Brickley, Gavin Carothers, Jeremy Carroll,
+ Tim Berners-Lee, David Booth, Dan Brickley, Gavin Carothers, Jeremy Carroll,
Pierre-Antoine Champin, Dan Connolly, John Cowan, Martin J. Dürst,
Alex Hall, Steve Harris, Pat Hayes, Ivan Herman, Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
Addison Phillips, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Andy Seaborne, Leif Halvard Silli,
@@ -1356,6 +1354,8 @@
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-rdf11-concepts-20131105/">5 November 2013 Candidate Recommendation (CR)</a>.</p>
<ul>
+ <li>2013-12-16: Minor editorial changes to <a href="#referents"></a> in response to a review by
+ <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Oct/0008.html">David Booth</a></li>
<li>2013-12-16: Make <code>rdf:HTML</code> and <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> non-normative</li>
<li>2013-12-16: Update acknowledgments</li>
<li>2013-12-12: Editorial changes in response to a review by