This week on Machine-Centric Science, I interviewed Martynas Jusevičius, currently at AtomGraph and based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

At a base level, an identifier is simple to trace – it is the sequence (modulo concurrency) of assertions of which it is a part.

Good identifiers are opaque, so translation is by association – owl:sameAs, skos:exactMatch, or some other relationship.

Where do you look for identifiers? If you’re looking for a URI, the IANA has a registry of schemes, like https, mailto, and tel.