the journey of linked data

The Journey ofLinked DataChris Waring | @cwaring

Creative Lead

Semantic Web

Web

Web(links + documents)

The Web of Documents

• A global network of linked documents

• A place where anyone can say anything about anything

• A vast collection of human-readable knowledge (and opinion)

• Documents are linked, but links are not qualified

Data

Open Data

2001

2004

2005

2006

2007

2009

2010

This is great,but it will only take us so far...

The issue...

• Humans are interested in things, not just documents.

The other issue...

• Humans can read documents and obtain meaning

• Machines can’t

If machines understand the web,

they can help us understand things.

Semantic Web

Graph thinking

Graph thinking

knows

lives lives

knows

spouse

knows

knows

knows

sibling

knows

knows

Graph thinking

The Web of Documents

• A global network of linked documents

• A place where anyone can say anything about anything

• A vast collection of human-readable knowledge (and opinion)

• Documents are linked, but links are not qualified

The Web of Data

• A global network of linked statements

• A place where anyone can say anything about anything

• A vast collection of machine-readable knowledge (and opinion)

• Statements are linked, and links are qualified

This is happeningnow

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