UUID as a URN (urn:uuid)
ID uuid_urn
Pattern of uuidNot PIIidentifierDraft
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A UUID written as a URN in the uuid namespace, urn:uuid:<UUID>, as RFC 9562 defines. It is used where an identifier must be a URI, for example as the id of Atom feeds and entries (RFC 4287), in RDF data and as the identifier of EPUB packages. The urn and uuid parts are case-insensitive.
- Pattern of
- Universally unique identifier (UUID)
uuid - Categories
- Universal unique identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[Uu][Rr][Nn]:[Uu][Uu][Ii][Dd]:[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}-[0-9A-Fa-f]{12}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| urn:uuid:f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 | Example URN of RFC 9562 (Figure 4) |
| urn:uuid:6e8bc430-9c3a-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66 | Example of the uuid namespace in the Wikipedia article on URNs |
| urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a | Entry id in the example feed of RFC 4287 (Atom) |
| f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 invalid | Bare UUID without the URN prefix, see uuid |
| urn:uuid:{f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6} invalid | Braces are not part of the URN form |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | UUID в виде URN (urn:uuid) |
Sources
- doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562
- doc: https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/urn-namespaces.xhtml
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/uuid_urn - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/identifiers/uuid_urn.yamlon GitHub