Lesson 2C: Think of the future, use persistent URIs
Publish data in registries at unique persistent URIs to ensure links between data sets are available, attainable and sustainable in the future.
Using URIs, you can link to something in a unique way and therefore uniquely distinguished. You need to use stable HTTP URIs for spatial objects and datasets in order to keep the links future-proof and reliable.
Registries, and especially the base registries, have proper uri management. Records are made available on a unique persistent uri, which enables the linking of objects within these registries to each other.
Publishing data records on unique persistent URIs requires a URI strategy. For example using the Dutch Linked Data URI Strategy:
The second phase of the testbed suggests that with the uptake in https adoption it may be wise to use HTTPS URIs in the near future. This would specifically be the case for authentic registers.
URI:
- /id/{resource} 303 redirect to /doc/{resource}
- /doc/{resource}
Example: https://geo4web.apiwise.nl/gemeente/GM0307
Several flavors exist but we recommend to the use Dutch URI Strategy as it was indexed by Google relatively fast. Read more here