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@id #10

Open seanherron opened 10 years ago

seanherron commented 10 years ago

What is @id used for? Just a canonical URL?

lilybradley commented 10 years ago

Where are you seeing this? I remember looking into it, could use help jogging my memory

lilybradley commented 10 years ago

from: http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/ "@id Used to uniquely identify things that are being described in the document with IRIs or blank node identifiers. This keyword is described in section 5.3 Node Identifiers."

my interpretation: it is recommended that you refer to a concept on the web, that is "most linked". I think these are documented by dbpedia (when i have seen graphics of linked data, dbpedia is the most linked/center node. i think that linking to wikipedia works, because its the most comprehensive collection of concepts. here is an illustration: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Interlinking