WIS2 is based on the web architecture.footnote:[See Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One: https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/.] As such it is _resource oriented_. Datasets are resources; the "granules" of data grouped in a dataset are resources; and the discovery metadata records that describe datasets are resources. In web architecture, every resource has a unique identifier (such as a URIfootnote:[See RFC 3986 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) - Generic Syntax: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.]), which can be used to resolve the identified resource and interact with it (for example, to download a representation of the resource over an open-standard protocol such as HTTP).
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