<h1 id="single-referent-principle">Single Referent Principle<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#single-referent-principle"></a></h1>
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<li>An IRI should refer to only one thing</li>
<li>this is NOT the "single name" principle; multiple IRIs can refer to the same thing</li>
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<h2 id="issues">Issues<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#issues"></a></h2>
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<li>meaning evolves over time. An IRI that once meant one thing, will come to be something different. Perhaps with versioning readily available, specifying the version helps uphold this principle.</li>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/sflo/notes/concept-summary">Concept Summary</a></li>
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Single Referent Principle

sflo


**Dereferenceable, versioned semantic meshes** will be the foundation for a new era of knowledge graphs.

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## What Is Semantic Flow?

**Semantic Flow** is a framework for managing and publishing resource identifiers, knowledge graphs and other semantic data by leveraging GitHub, Gitlab, and other free static hosting services. It enables a **dereferenceable Semantic Web** where every HTTP IRI returns meaningful content.

[[concept.mesh-repo]] provide storage, [[concept.mesh]] provide resource management and publishing, and [[concept.semantic-site]] support data discovery and explainability.

## Benefits

- own your own self-describing data and data schemas
- complete version history when you want it
- reliable persistence
- truly FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)

## Features

- seamlessly integrate other data sources anywhere in your mesh
- generate and customize mini-sites or single-page applications for nodes in your mesh
- see [[feature]] for a list of planned features
