URIs

There are several different types of URIs that exist in the system:

• Internal URIs: for objects that were created on the standards server and thus have self.canonical_uri == self.get_absolute_url().

• Mirrored external URIs: vocabulary terms or standards whose official “home” is located on an external server, but which have been imported to local server. For these self.canonical_uri == self.source_uri. Since these resources are also “mirrored” locally, they can be browsed at self.get_absolute_url().

• External URIs: these are references to external resources that cannot be browsed locally, e.g., target_uri as part of a relation when target=None.

Browsing context

When accessing a live server instance, navigation links are computed using the resources’ get_absolute_url() methods and not using canonical_uris.

Publishing context

See page on publishing for details about publishing contexts.

Resolving URIs

When encountering a URI reference to a resource, we follow the same process as during publishing in order to find the referenced object, including internal URIs, mirrored external URIs, and external URIs.

Content URLs

Content collections and content nodes are identified by a source_url, which is usually represents a an online location where the resource can be accessed and downloaded from.

Content IDs

Content collections and content nodes are identified by a source_domain which represents the hostname where one or more content collections are hosted. Furthermore, colletion_id, source_id, node_id are also used to identify content nodes.