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Existing linked data consists of human readable URIs. Aren’t GUIDs obtuse?

April 26, 2017CONSISTS Data existing guids Human linked obtuse readable URIs

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Existing linked data consists of human readable URIs. Aren’t GUIDs obtuse?

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The Semantic Web (and thus an Open GUID) is designed to be interpreted by machines. Thus identifiers need not be remembered by people. It is much easier to find concepts in one place than to scour the web for the best possible URI identifier.