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ASN URI Resolver

ASN URI Resolver

All ASN URIs can be resolved or dereferenced by humans or applications.  The dereferencing of an ASN URI returns the full upward path of the ASN Taxon Path (Path) in which the entity identified by the URI is a member.  Thus, dereferencing the ASN URI such as an Ohio mathematics statement   (http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S1024B7C) returns an RDF/XML description of the full Path as illustrated including the text of its member statements. 

If the statement URI being referenced is an entity further up in the hierarchical Path from the literal leaf, dereferencing would treat the URI being dereferenced as the leaf entity in the Path and return the upward path.  The Path in such a case would not include statements downward in the path from the dereferenced entity.

The dereferencing of an ASN URI is managed by the ASN URI Resolver. The ASN URI Resolver is the simplest service offered by the ASN and requires no special knowledge on the part of humans or applications to handle dereferencing.