As part of the government’s work on open standards and especially Linked Data for publishing, we have been working on Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and how we should use them.
URIs will be a crucial part of the UK public sector’s technical information architecture, helping information sharing across government, providing better public services, and where possible, making re-use of published data much easier. URIs allow different organisations’ systems to share common meaning and common identifiers. Used across the public sector this will help join-up otherwise disparate data sets into a web of data that can be linked, queried and aggregated.
The Chief Technology Officer Council’s Information Domain have written some guidance on design considerations for how UK public sector URIs should be developed and maintained. It has been published as an interim standard , and we would greatly appreciate your feedback, so the people at Write to Reply have kindly hosted a version open for your input on which you can comment, commend or criticise.
Your comments are important as they will help us make the best choices so that Government data is as open and easy to re-use as possible.
