Node identification namespace

A node identification namespace is a system that assigns byte addresses to the nodes of a semantic network. For a given semantic network multiple node identification namespaces can exist. A node identification namespace can serve the following purposes:

• It can make it possible to save semantic networks or parts of them in a file by allowing for the use of byte references to other nodes in the network.

• It should make sure that each node in the network has exactly one byte address representing it.

• It can come with some mechanism to find the nodes data resource of a given byte address.

dwll

A node identification namespace is needed when storing dwll data (for example in the dwllr file format). A node identification namespace for dwll data is the dudin.