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The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license
for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure
cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

The licenses for most software and other practical works are
designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By
contrast, our General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your
freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it
remains free software for all its users.

GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface.

The Neurocommons project seeks to make all scientific research
materials - research articles, annotations, data, physical materials - as available and as useable as they can be.
We do this by both fostering practices that render information in a form that promotes uniform access by computational agents - sometimes called "interoperability". We want knowledge sources to combine meaningfully, enabling semantically precise queries that span multiple information sources.

Our work covers general data and knowledge sources used in computational biology as well as sources
specific to neuroscience and neuromedicine.
The practices that we develop and promote are designed to play well on the Semantic Web. We view our technical work not as creating a new service or content library, although we do both, but rather as helping to promote the growth of semantically linked scientific information.

How should one go about finding documentation that will explain what a URI names, in cases where this is needed and it is not already at hand? HTTP was not designed to help out here, so the following is not as elegant as would be a protocol designed with this in mind.

If you're doing bulk processing of URI documentation, you may be better off doing bulk downloads or SPARQL queries on an appropriate SPARQL endpoint, as large numbers of probes will be inefficient and will load servers, usually unnecessarily.

The following protocol is designed to be forgiving enough to grandfather many URIs already in use on the Semantic Web, such as those in the RDF Schema vocabulary and Dublin Core, while strict enough to support our URI requirements. It coincides with HTTP in the absence of overrides, responses containing a Location: header, and 200 responses.