---
title: "Linking to objects"
slug: "linking-to-objects"
abstract: "Overview of linked resources in Sitecore Personalize REST APIs."
---
# Linking to objects

REST resources that reference other resources, such as an account referencing its parent directory, represent the reference as a `link`. A `link` is an object nested within an existing resource representation that has an `href` attribute. The `href` attribute is the fully qualified location URI of the linked resource.

A `link` object:

```json
{
    "href": "<baseURL>/v2/someCollection/{ref}"
}

```

This JSON object structure is called a `link` because it provides a similar functionality to more familiar HTML anchors that are often called hyperlinks or links for short. You can use the `href` attribute within the `link` object to interact with that resource, if required.

This `someCollection` resource has more than one link: the resource itself and the `items` in the resource collection:

```json
{
  "href": "<baseURL>/v2/someCollection",
  "offset": 0,
  "limit": 10,
  "items" : [
    {
      "href": "<baseURL>/v2/someCollection/37e60a14-9198-4b38-8bc3-f3924e2b6fe4"
    },
    {
      "href": "<baseURL>/v2/someCollection/D1548691-47DF-41B6-A7B7-77516A76D62C"
    }
  ]
}

```