OSLC can be used to create links between resources in different tools. You can use the OSLC selection dialog of the provider/server to select the target resource, and then store the link in a property of the consuming client.

However, the link must be defined in the participating tools. The link could be defined in the domain specification shared by the tool, or it could be defined by extensibility mechanisms in the providing server. Both tools will need to be able to reflective negotiate linking between resources using links that are extensions of the supported OSLC domain specification. Different domains and supporting tools have different rules about what they do with unrecognized data. The data could be ignored, preserved but not used, reflected on and used by dynamically adapting to the data as it is discovered.