URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)
URI can mean many things as Wikipedia reminds us. It is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, it can be a personal name (for example, Uri Geller) and the Uri Party is a political party in South Korea.
The most well known use of URI is as an acronym for the Uniform Resource Identifier. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the arbiter of all things Internet, is perhaps the most reliable source for an explanation.
The Web is an information space. Human beings have a lot of mental machinery for manipulating, imagining, and finding their way in spaces. URIs are the points in that space. There is only one Web naming/addressing technology: URIs.
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are short strings that identify resources in the web: documents, images, downloadable files, services, electronic mailboxes, and other resources. They make resources available under a variety of naming schemes and access methods such as HTTP, FTP, and Internet mail addressable in the same simple way.
Technically URIs can have a number of related parts such as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Names (URNs). Often the terms URI and URL are used interchangeably since the locational aspect of the URI is usually the most important.
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