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MIT OCW requires persistent, unique, unambiguous names for the following entities in its Domain Model (Agents, Courses, Sections, Resources). Persistence - The names We call these names identifiers.
Identifiers should not change
This rules out the use of URLs as they are far too easy to change.
Uniqueness - To object should not share the same name.
This also rules o
Don't Share Names
- Names are not Titles
Course, Section, and Resource Titles are not unique. - Names are not Personal Names
Personal N
Follow Linked Data Principles
See: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
- Use URIs
- Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names
- When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)
- Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
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