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URI aliases

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

Two or more different URIs that that identify the same resource.
URI collision

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

The use of the same URI to refer to more than one resource in the context of Web protocols and formats.
URI ownership

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

A relationship between a URI and a social entity, such as a person, organization, or specification.
URI persistence

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

The social expectation that once a URI identifies a particular resource, it should continue indefinitely to refer to that resource.
URI reference

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

Within this specification, the term URI Reference, unless otherwise stated, refers to a string in the lexical space of the xs:anyURI data type as defined in .
URI reference

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One (2004-12-15) | Glossary for this source

An operational shorthand for a URI.
URI reference

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

as in RDF
uRIs

From Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing (1998-07-10) | Glossary for this source

Web addresses, with various components; pivot point for much of the WWW. How to encode arbitrary bytes into a restricted set of characters (using %HH escapes) is well defined, but which character encoding to use to encode arbitrary characters into bytes is not defined. In most cases, e.g. in proxies, comparisons are strictly binary. Without some specification for uniform normalization, some characters cannot reliably be used.
URL

From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source

Uniform Resource Locator.
URL (Uniform resource locator)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A term used sometimes for certain URIs to indicate that they might change. See URI.
usage auditing

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

Service that reliably and securely records usage-related events producing an audit trail enabling the reconstruction and examination of a sequence of events. Usage events could include resource allocation events and resource freeing events.

use

From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

(v.) contrasted with mention ; to use a piece of syntax to denote or refer to something else. The normal way that language is used.
user

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The principal using a client to interactively retrieve and render resources or resource manifestations.
user

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

An individual or group of individuals acting as a single entity. The user is further qualified as an entity who uses a device to request content and/or resource from a server.
user

From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source

A user is a person who interacts with a user agent to view, hear, or otherwise use a document and its associated style sheet. The user may provide a personal style sheet that encodes personal preferences.A user agent is any program that interprets a document written in the document language and applies associated style sheets according to the terms of this specification. A user agent may display a document, read it aloud, cause it to be printed, convert it to another format, etc.
user

From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source

A person whose interaction with an implementation platform is controlled by a VoiceXML interpreter .
user

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

A human who perceives and interacts with the web
user

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16) | Glossary for this source

An individual (or group of individuals acting as a single entity) on whose behalf a service is accessed and for which personal data exists. P3P policies describe the collection and use of personal data about this individual or group.A program whose purpose is to mediate interactions with services on behalf of the user under the user's preferences. A user may have more than one user agent, and agents need not reside on the user's desktop, but any agent must be controlled by and act on behalf of only the user. The trust relationship between a user and his or her agent may be governed by constraints outside of P3P. For instance, an agent may be trusted as a part of the user's operating system or Web client, or as a part of the terms and conditions of an ISP or privacy proxy.
user agent

From XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) (2000-01-26) | Glossary for this source

A user agent is a system that processes XHTML documents in accordance with this specification. See User Agent Conformance for more information.
user agent

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

A program, such as a browser, running on the device that acts on a user's behalf. Users may use different user agents at different times.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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