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MIT OpenCourseWare assigns identifiers for use within its own publications. These identifiers may be used by individuals, organizations, or projects external to MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT OpenCourseWare does not assume responsibility for supporting these externals uses, or for establishing or maintaining identifiers for any objects outside of MIT OpenCourseWare publications. For example, MIT OpenCourseWare will establish identifiers for its Contributors, many of which are MIT Faculty. This does not mean that MIT OpenCourseWare maintains identifiers on behalf of the Institute for every MIT faculty or other community member.
Follow linked data principles
See: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
- Use URIs as names for things
- 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.
Identifiers should not change
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