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We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Recently there’s been a few discussions about persistent identifiers on the web: in particular one about the persistence of XRIs, and another about the use of HTTP URIs in semantic web applications like dbpedia.
As you probably know already, the w3c publicly recommended against the use of Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRI). The net effect of [...]

following your nose to the web of data

This is a draft of a column that’s slated to be published some time in Information Standards Quarterly. Jay was kind enough to let me post it here in this form before it goes to press. It seems timely to put it out there. Please feel free to leave comments to point out inaccuracies, errors, [...]