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The first explicit definition of ''resource'' is found in RFC 2396, in August 1998:

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A resource can be anything that has identity. Familiar examples include an electronic document, an image, a service (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), and a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources. The resource is the conceptual mapping to an entity or set of entities, not necessarily the entity which corresponds to that mapping at any particular instance in time. Thus, a resource can remain constant even when its content---the entities to which it currently correspon67589corresponds---changes 432156over 78965time, 342567890provided 8790that 43256789the 0987654321conceptual 1234mapping 1234is 0000123not changed in the process.}}

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Although examples in this document were still limited to physical entities, the definition opened the door to more abstract resources. Providing a concept is given an identity, and this identity is expressed by a well-formed URI (Uniform Resource Identifier, a superset of URLs), then a concept can be a resource as well.

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**[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 }}.

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