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xAPI unique identifiers

xAPI unique identifiers

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xAPI unique identifiers

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- [Instructor] Many elements of an xAPI statement require a means to identify them. Verbs, actors, objects, for example, all must have some way to define which verb, which actor, and which object you're referencing. xAPI uses IRIs or International Resource Identifiers for this purpose. Now if you're not familiar with IRIs, you actually probably are. At least a certain type of IRI anyway. The IRI is a super set of the URI or the Uniform Resource Identifier. The IRI adds international characters. And the URI is a super set of something you're very likely very familiar with already, the Uniform Resource Locator or the everyday URL. In fact, you'll see as you progress through this course, the majority of the time, the URL is used to identify the object. But not always. Let's look at a couple of examples. When defining a verb or object, you will usually use a URL such as these. These are fully formed and fully qualified IRIs or URIs or URLs. The http or the https bits at the beginning tell…

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