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Use dcterms:isReferencedBy to let Iolanta know where to fetch information about a thing

Why

Sometimes, a URI that describes something is, by itself, not resolvable. For instance, W3C License is specified by

https://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/W3C1.0

but resolving this URL won't return anything. In this case, you can use dcterms:isReferencedBy to point to a document that describes the thing.

How

"@context":
  "@import": https://json-ld.org/contexts/dollar-convenience.jsonld
  dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/

  dcterms:isReferencedBy:
    "@type": "@id"

$id: https://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/W3C1.0
dcterms:isReferencedBy: https://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/W3C1.0.ttl

Whenever Iolanta encounters the URI of W3C 1.0 license it will retrieve the specified Turtle document which provides information about it.