FAIRsharing record for: Australian Government Link Data Working Group Persistent Identification Namespace

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG) advocates the use of Linked Data as a particular set of technologies to be used for Internet-distributed, machine-readable data and, due to this, advocates the use of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) as identifiers for things. The linked.data.gov.au namespace was implemented by the AGLDWG to govern Linked Data resources for Australia. The namespace uses pattern which can be used to create individual PIDs for infinitely many persistent identifiers for Australian Government Linked Data resources. The namespace uses a domain name that is not coupled to a particular agency's name or function. Use of this namespace was initiated in 2016 and then strengthened in 2018 with multiple Australian government agencies signing a Memorandum of Understanding to reserve the use of linked.data.gov.au for PID IRIs and to ensure its operational stability. The AGLDWG has adopted the IS0 19135 for IRI registration procedure and roles and issued Guidelines that details its PID allocation process.