On Identity

(This page was created in response to a complaint that the same URI is created for U.S. Geological Survey and U.S Geological Survey)

• Properties are distinguished by default (e.g., raw:name, raw:name_2, raw:name_3) until a curator consolidates them using common conversion:labels.
• Resources named by property-scoped promotions may become identical, since they share the same value-of/PROPERTY namespace.
• Resources named by typed resource promotions may become identical, since they share the same typed/CLASS namespace.
• The replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z_0-9\\-]","_") string operation is applied when promoting values to URIs, and "repeating" underscores are shortened to a single underscore.