RDF 303 redirect clarification

Question

I\'d like to confirm something about the 303 redirect protocol implication.

If one does follow the convention of building RDF (resources/instances file as opposed t

Answer 1

More specifically, does not Resource Description Framework stand for Information Resource Description Framework?

No. Because you can describe things that are not information resources, for instance: a person. A lump of cheese. A specific shade of blue.

A URI is the name of a resource - a thing-in-itself that you are actually interested in. Many times that thing-in-itself is actually something available on the web: an image or other media file, a human-readable document. These types of things are called information resources.

So to make it clear whether you are fetching the actual thing, or a document about the thing, linked data issues the 303 redirect.