Cool URIs for FAIR Knowledge Graphs

TL;DR

This paper provides updated guidelines for creating stable, secure, and persistent URIs to ensure data remains FAIR-compliant across various scales of knowledge graph publishing, revisiting and extending previous URI principles.

Contribution

It revisits and updates the principles of URI design for FAIR knowledge graphs, incorporating modern considerations for stability and security.

Findings

Updated URI design principles for FAIR data

Recommendations for secure and persistent URIs

Extension of 'Cool URIs' concepts to modern knowledge graphs

Abstract

This guide is for everyone who seeks advice for creating stable, secure, and persistent Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) in order to publish their data in accordance to the FAIR principles. The use case does not matter. It could range from publishing the results of a small research project to a large knowledge graph at a big corporation. The FAIR principles apply equally and this is why it is important to put extra thought into the URI selection process. The title aims to extend the tradition of "Cool URIs don't change" and "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web". Much has changed since the publication of these works and we would like to revisit some of the principles. Many still hold today, some had to be reworked, and we could also identify new ones