URI reference was another name for IRI. An IRI is basically a URI
that may contain non-ASCII characters.
See the (outdated) RDF 1.0 spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/#section-Graph-URIref
If I'm not mistaken, the term URI reference was used in RDF 1.0
because the RFC for
As I said, an IRI is basically a URI that may contain non-ASCII
characters. Also, every valid URI is also a valid IRI, but not vice
versa. http://dbpedia.org/resource/München is an IRI, but not a valid
URI, because ü is not an ASCII character. The corresponding URI is
What's the exact difference between a URI, a URIref and a namespace URI?
Thank you!
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