Web resource: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:39, 6 April 2024

Latest revision as of 03:19, 12 August 2025

(16 intermediate revisions by 14 users not shown)

Line 6:

A '''web resource''' is any identifiable resource (digital, physical, or abstract) present on or connected to the [[World Wide Web]].<ref name="rfc3986">[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 RFC 3986 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax]</ref><ref name="fielding_dissertation">[https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm Roy T. Fielding's Dissertation]</ref><ref name="uri_identify">[https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/HTTP-URI.html What do HTTP URIs Identify?], by [[Tim Berners-Lee]]</ref> Resources are identified using [[Uniform Resource Identifier]]s (URIs).<ref name="rfc3986" /><ref name="rfc1738">RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)</ref> In the [[Semantic Web]], web resources and their semantic properties are described using the [[Resource Description Framework]] (RDF).<ref name="rdf_index">[https://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf RDF Current Status]</ref>

The concept of a web ''resource'' has evolved during the Web's history, from the early notion of static addressable [[Electronic document|document]]s or [[Computer file|file]]s, to a more generic and abstract definition, now encompassing every "thing" or [[wikt:entity|entity]] that can be identified, named, addressed or handled, in any way whatsoever, in the web at large, or in any networked information system. The declarative aspects of a resource (identification and naming) and its functional aspects (addressing and technical handling) weren't clearly distinct in the early specifications of the web, and the very definition of the concept has been the subject of long and still open debate involving difficult, and often arcane, technical, social, linguistic and philosophical issues.

== From documents and files to web resources ==

Line 46:

==See also==

*[[Address bar]]

*[[Resource (computer science)]]

*[[Resource-oriented architecture]] (ROA)

Line 64 ⟶ 65:

**[http://www.w3.org/2006/04/irw65/urisym.html A Pragmatic Theory of Reference for the Web], by [[Dan Connolly (computer scientist)|Dan Connolly]].

**[http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/irw2006/presentations/HayesSlides.pdf In Defense of Ambiguity], by [[Patrick J. Hayes|Patrick Hayes]].

*[http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS//Vol-201/43.pdf Towards an OWL ontology for identity on the web], by Valentina Presutti and Aldo Gangemi, [http://swapconf.it/2006/ SWAP2006 conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061224214413/http://www.swapconf.it/2006/ |date=2006-12-24 }}.

{{refend}}