# Internationalized Resource Identifier

> 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.

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](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/RFC%203987.txt).

## In RDF

- In [RDF](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Resource%20description%20framework.txt), an IRI identifies a resource. The <URL>s 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](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/RDF%20triples.txt).[^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]: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-primer/