The ontology's IRI is http://wot.barneyb.com/wot/ to leave space for an application at the domain root, with dynamic content occupying the /wot/ path.

IDs are generated by stripping punctuation, capitalizing every word, and then stripping spaces. Thus, the IRI for "Rand al'Thor" is :RandAlThor. The ID for "Asha'man" is :Ashaman (no capital m).

Colloquial names should be used, for easier guessed-by-human. Thus, :TamAlThor with :alternateIRI of :TamlinAlThor.

Titles should not be used, for example "Queen", "Sedai", or the royal "al'". Thus, the IRI for "al'Lan Mandragoran" is :LanMandragoran, not :AlLanMandragoran. This may appear contradictory to Rand's IRI above, but the "al'" on Rand's surname, like many Emond's Field surnames, is not a title. It was derived from one, of course: Aemon al Caar al Thorin, last King of Manetheren, and Emond's Field's namesake.

Collisions are avoided by suffixing the in-conflict IRI with some sub-namespace, separated by an underscore. Thus, the IRI for the "Wolfbrother" chapter in The Eye of the World is :Wolfbrother_TEofW. Both The Great Hunt and A Memory of Light also have "Wolfbrother" chapters. If an in-conflict IRI is detected retroactively (by creating a new resource):

• the old resource's IRI should be deprecated,
• a new one with a suffix created, and
• the two resources marked sameAs.

Labels should follow the IRI, with full/alternate names in foaf:name. Thus :TamAlThor has label "Tam al'Thor" w/ name "Tamlin al'Thor".