Internationalized Resource Identifier

  • 2025-04-05
  • 별칭: IRI

An IRI is a complement to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). An IRI is a sequence of characters from the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646). See RFC 3987.

In RDF

  • In RDF, an IRI identifies a resource. The URLs that people use as Web addresses are one form of IRI. Other forms of IRI provide an identifier for a resource without implying its location or how to access it.1
  • IRIs can appear in all three positions of a triple.1
  • RDF is agnostic about what the IRI represents. However, IRIs may be given meaning by particular vocabularies or conventions. For example, DBpedia uses IRIs of the form http://dbpedia.org/resource/Name to denote the thing described by the corresponding Wikipedia article.

Footnotes

  1. w3.org/TR/rdf12-primer/ 2

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