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Linked data

In computing, linked data is structured data which is associated with ("linked" to) other data. Interlinking makes the data more useful through semantic queries. Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), coined the term in a 2006 design note about the Semantic Web project. Part of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to…

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Linked data

Nodes52
Edges51
Triples62
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.038462
Components1

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Linked data

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related to European Union projects · 12
Linked data → AKN4EU, DaPaaS, Data, Data-and-Platform-as-a-Service, EU Open Data Portal, European Union, LATC, Linked Open Data, LOD2, PlanetData, There, These
related to Principles · 11
Linked data → HTTP URI-based, HTTP URIs, In, RDF, SPARQL, Tim Berners-Lee, Uniform Resource Identifiers, URIs, Useful, Web, When
related to Components · 8
Linked data → JSON-LDLinked Data PlatformCSV-W, N3, RDF/XML, RDFa, Resource Description Framework, Thus, Turtle, URIsHTTPStructured
related to Datasets · 8
Linked data → DBpedia, GRID, Open ICEcat, RDF, Research Identifier Database, Semantic Web, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia
see also · 5
Linked data → American, American Art Collaborative, Interlinked DatasetsWeb Ontology LanguageList, US, Vocabulary
related to Linked open data · 2
Linked data → Linked, Tim Berners-Lee

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Important terminology

data linked open rdf http web datasets uris tim berners-lee links project w3c structured using semantic also triples name available

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HTTPinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
RDFinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
URIsinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
but rather than using them to serve web pagesinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
hyperlinks only for human readersinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computersinstance ofPart of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies0.80text
RDFinstance ofUseful information about what a name identifies should be provided through open standards0.80text
SPARQLinstance ofUseful information about what a name identifies should be provided through open standards0.80text
etc.When publishing data on the Webinstance ofUseful information about what a name identifies should be provided through open standards0.80text
other things should be referred to using their HTTP URI-based names.Tim Berners-Lee later restated these principles at a 2009 TED conferenceinstance ofUseful information about what a name identifies should be provided through open standards0.80text
again paraphrased along the following linesinstance ofUseful information about what a name identifies should be provided through open standards0.80text
RDFainstance ofURIsHTTPStructured data using controlled vocabulary terms and dataset definitions expressed in Resource Description Framework serialization formats0.80text

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