Right Hand Patterns

Note that the example URI in the table below are for illustrative purposes. Most of the "Version 1.0" examples do access live linked-data with the particular exception of URI ending in a “#fragment”. At the time of writing all the “With {/collection}*” examples are illustrative only.


Pattern Example URI
URI Set URI {prefix}/id/{concept} or 
{prefix}/{concept}#id
Version 1.0 examples
http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school
http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/road
http://transport.data.gov.uk/road#id

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/id/bathing-water
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/id/river-basin-district
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/id/waterbody
Identifier URI
(for reference items)
{prefix}/id[/{concept}/{key}]* or
{prefix}[/{concept}/{key}]*#id
Version 1.0 examples
http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/station/BPW
http://transport.data.gov.uk/station/BPW#id

http://transport.data.gov.uk/road/M5#id
http://transport.data.gov.uk/road/M5/junction/24#id

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/id/river-basin-district/8
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/id/waterbody/GB108050014050
Document URI
(for reference data)
reference data for single reference items:
{prefix}/doc[/{concept}/{key}]* or 
{prefix}[/{concept}/{key}]*

optionally, reference data for lists of reference items
{prefix}/doc/{concept}/{key}]*/{concept}or 
{prefix}[/{concept}/{key}]*/{concept}
Version 1.0 examples
http://transport.data.gov.uk/doc/station/BPW
http://transport.data.gov.uk/station/BPW

http://transport.data.gov.uk/road/M5
http://transport.data.gov.uk/road/M5/junction/24

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/doc/river-basin-district/8
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/doc/waterbody/GB108050014050
Vocabulary URI
(for vocabularies, ontologies, concept schemes, codelists and schema)
{prefix}/def{/vocabulary*} Version 1.0 examples
http://transport.data.gov.uk/def/traffic
http://environment.data.gov.uk/def/bathing-water
http://transport.data.gov.uk/def/vehicle

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/def/bathing-water
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/def/assessment
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/def/waterbody-classification
Vocabulary Term URI
(for term definitions within a vocabularies, ontologies, concept schemes, codelists and schema)
{prefix}/def{/vocabulary*}/{term} Version 1.0 examples
http://transport.data.gov.uk/def/traffic/Road
http://environment.data.gov.uk/def/bathing-water/CoastalBathingWater
http://transport.data.gov.uk/def/vehicle#hgv

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/def/bathing-water/CoastalBathingWater
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/def/assessment/ComplianceAssessment
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/def/classification/classifcationYear
Dataset URI
(for datasets)
{prefix}/data{/dataset*} Version 1.0 examples
http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/bathing-water-quality
http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/bathing-water-quality/compliance
http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/waterbody/classification

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/data/compliance-assessment
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/data/sample-assessment
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/data/classification-predicted-outcome
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/data/classification-objective-outcome
Data Item URI
(for data items within datasets)
{prefix}/data{/dataset*}[/{concept}/{key}]* Version 1.0 examples
http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/bathing-water-quality/compliance/point/03600/year/2012
http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/waterbody/classification/waterbody/GB109055042060/year/2009/item/wbc_55

With {/collection}*
http://environment.data.gov.uk/bathing-water-quality/data/compliance-assessment/point/03600/year/2012
http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-management/data/classification/waterbody/GB109055042060/year/2009/item/wbc_55

where


**`def`** for vocabularies and terms;
**`id`** for URI sets and reference items;
**`doc`** for reference documents (and documents in general?);
**`data`** for datasets and data items;
**`so`** for spatial objects

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