Concepts

Bundles

Equivalent URIs are conceptually stored in a bundle. A bundle is a set of URIs referring to resources which are considered to be equivalent, in a given context. A URI can exist in at most one bundle within a linked data set exposed by a sameAs Lite instance.

Canons

One URI in each bundle is nominated to be a canonical identifier, or canon, for that bundle. The canon represents a preferred URI for the set of duplicates.

An application that wishes to use data from multiple sources as if they were a single resource can process results by looking up URIs within sameAs Lite and replacing these with their canons on the fly. This reduces the multiplicity of identifiers to a single definitive URI.

Symbols

Store

For more information about the concepts underpinning sameAs Lite, see Glaser, H., Jaffri, A. and Millard, I. C. (2009) Managing Co-reference on the Semantic Web. In: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009), April 2009, Madrid, Spain.

To read about the history of sameAs, refer to http://sameas.org/about.php.