Clean, clear URIs can be easier to remember and easier for developers to work with. This is especially true if the URIs can be algorithmically constructed or follow a common pattern. This allows URIs to be constructed or hacked in order to create new entry points into the dataset, e.g. determining the URI for a collection of similar resources based on knowledge of a single example URI.

Create URIs that follow a simple naming pattern. For applications generating Linked Data one technique for building patterned URIs is to use the pluralized class name as part of the URI pattern.

For example if an application will be publishing data about book resources, which are modelled as the rdf:type ex:Book. One might construct URIs of the form:

/books/12345

Where /books is the base part of the URI indicating "the collection of books", and the 12345 is an identifier for an individual book.

If multiple classes share a common base class, then it is also possible to use the name of the common base class, rather than generating separate URIs for each derived type

The BBC website uses /programmes to group together URIs that relate to series, brands and episodes, all of which are subclasses of the rdf:type po:Programme

There are clear benefits from having human-readable, hackable URIs. This solution achieves that by ensuring the same naming scheme that applies to the underlying data also applies to the URIs. This provides a clear relation between the URI and the type of thing that it describes.