Linked Data

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What is Linked Data on the Semantic Web: 

The Web enables us to link related documents. Similarly it enables us to link related data.


Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web so that it can become more useful. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried.

Key technologies that support Linked Data are URIs (a generic means to identify entities or concepts in the world), HTTP (a simple yet universal mechanism for retrieving resources, or descriptions of resources), and RDF (a generic graph-based data model with which to structure and link data that describes things in the world).


Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, coined the term in a design note discussing issues around the Semantic Web project.












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