Linked Data

Citation:

Berners-Lee, T. (2010). Linked Data. Cambridge: World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved May 11, 2012 from http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

Work data:

Type of work: Policy Briefing, Position Paper

Categories:

e-Government & e-Administration | Information Society | Open Access

Observations:

? Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data.

?? Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table).

??? as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel).

???? All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff.

????? All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context.