the journey of linked data
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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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ReferencesTim Berners-Lee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-LeeCreative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/Science Commons: http://creativecommons.org/scienceGuardian “Give us back our crown jewels”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/mar/09/education.epublicTalis Open Data Commons: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/12/talis_and_creative_commons_lau.phpTim Berners-Lee “The Next Web”: http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.htmlData.gov: http://data.govWorldBank: http://data.worldbank.org/Afghanistan Elections: http://afghanistanelectiondata.org/Data.gov.uk: http://data.gov.ukLondon Data Store: http://data.london.gov.uk/Scientific American : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-webFacebook Graph: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919Linked Open Data cloud: http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/BBC Wildlife Finder: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/