Features

Redirect Service

As a Linked Data server, Prez provides a redirect service at /identifier/redirect that accepts a query parameter iri, looks up the iri in the database for a foaf:homepage predicate with a value, and if it exists, return a redirect response to the value.

This functionality is useful for institutions who issue their own persistent identifiers under a domain name that they control. The mapping from the persistent identifier to the target web resource is stored in the backend SPARQL store.

This is an alternative solution to persistent identifier services such as the w3id.org. In some cases, it can be used together with such persistent identifier services to avoid the need to provide the redirect mapping in webserver config (NGINX, Apache HTTP, etc.) and instead, define the config as RDF data.