Which URI to use in your RDF?

Guideline 1. Use the data provider's URL as your identifier, unless it uses get arguments; in this case, it is a more stable case to use something like LSRN to do the redirect for you. This is because arguments expose an interface that is prone to change - if it changes, all triplestores on earth have to be updated; however with a redirect, there is only one update required.

Guideline 2. Document the URI you use on freebase, to encourage uniformity.  http://www.freebase.com/view/user/biohackathon/default_domain/views/namespace_1

Guideline 3. Document the deprecated or primary URIs.

e.g. the entrez query  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=22177139 is the same as  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22177139 (the community recommend to use the later) or  http://www.ebi.uniprot.org/entry/P05067 is the same as  http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P05067 (where UniProt? asks you use the later, which will give RDF if your HTTP header accepts it).

Guideline 4. When there is more than one official URI for a concept e.g. PDB is available at PDBj, PDBe, RCSB PDB. Then choose the one that you prefer. And add owl:sameAs statements for each URL.