Recommended HTML Code for Acronyms

How to add acronyms to your web pages

To add an acronym to your web page, simply look up the meaning of the acronym in the acronym directory, then click on the "get HTML code" link for that term and copy-and-paste the code provided. There are more detailed descriptions of how each type of link works:

• How HTML links work
• How XLink simple links work
• How XLink extended links work
• How RDF metadata works

TRY IT! Do an Acronym Search to find the expanded meaning of an acronym by keyword using the Acronym Finder or look up the acronym definition in the Acronym Dictionary. Click on the "HTML code for acronyms" link to get the code for your web page. After putting the HTML code for the acronym on your web site, hover your mouse over the acronym (without clicking) to show what the acronym means.

URI References vs. URLs

On the Semantic Web there is a distinction between a URL, which references the location of a resource, such as a web page, that describes a concept and a URI Reference (URIRef) that references the concept itself. We have adopted the following conventions:

URLs referencing online resources

A URL with a host name that begins with www references an online resource that is accessible via the worldwide web. If the resource is a directory, it ends with a "/"; otherwise, if it's a web page it will end with a file extension such as .html. For example: http://www.Acronyms.net/terms/u/Universal-Resource-Locator/ would be the base URL of one or more web pages that describe the term "Universal Resource Locator". That URL could be used as the object of a "is defined at" relationship.

URIs (URIRefs) referencing abstract concepts

A URI with a host name that does not begin with www references the actual concept itself. For example: http://Acronyms.net/terms/Three-Letter-Acronym would be a reference to the concept of a 3-letter acronym. That URI could be used as the object of a "is a" or "stands for" relationship, as in:

                                 <a xlink:type="extended"gt;
                                 

                                    <abbr xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="acronym">URL</abbr>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="term" xlink:role="&av;term" xlink:href="http://Acronyms.net/terms/Universal-Resource-Locator"/>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="termDef" xlink:role="&av;definition" xlink:href="http://www.Acronyms.net/terms/u/Universal-Resource-Locator/"/>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="3letter" xlink:role="&rdf;Datatype" xlink:href="http://Acronyms.net/terms/Three-Letter-Acronym"/>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="arc" xlink:from="acronym" xlink:arcrole="&av;isA" xlink:to="3letter"/>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="arc" xlink:from="acronym" xlink:arcrole="&av;standsFor" xlink:to="term"/>
                                 

                                    <span xlink:type="arc" xlink:from="term" xlink:arcrole="&av;definedAt" xlink:to="termDef"/>
                                 

                                 </a>
                                 

                              

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Last updated Saturday February 21, 2009