ResourceNormalized
ResourceNormalized is a conceptual approach to standardizing resource identifiers across disparate systems so that different representations of the same resource resolve to a single canonical form. It is not a single official standard, but a family of practices used to enable reliable deduplication, matching, and interoperability in complex environments.
The normalization process typically includes case folding, whitespace trimming, encoding normalization, and unifying component formats for
In practice, ResourceNormalized is applied in data integration, API gateways, caching layers, and cloud resource management
Example: a system might receive "https://example.com/resource?id=123", "http://EXAMPLE.com/Resource?Id=123", and "https://example.com/resource/123?ref=none". A ResourceNormalized pipeline would produce a canonical
Challenges include handling ambiguous identifiers, evolving resource schemas, performance costs, and ensuring that normalization does not
See also: URI normalization, canonicalization, data normalization, resource identification.