global. 2009.8.21 - Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related pieces of data, information and knowledge that wasn't previously linked.
 

 
The Open Data Movement aims at making data freely available to everyone. There are already various interesting open data sets available on the Web. Examples include Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Geonames, MusicBrainz, WordNet, the DBLP bibliography and many more which are published under Creative Commons or Talis licenses.
 
The goal of the W3C SWEO Linking Open Data community project is to extend the Web with a data commons by publishing various open data sets as RDF on the Web and by setting RDF links between data items from different data sources.
 
This interactive diagram shows some of the datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project. The image shows only datasets that are published as linked data and are interlinked with at least one other dataset in the cloud.
 
The figures on this site show the data sets that have been published and interlinked by the project so far. Collectively, the data sets consist of over 4.7 billion RDF triples, which are interlinked by around 142 million RDF links (May 2009).
 
RDF links enable you to navigate from a data item within one data source to related data items within other sources using a Semantic Web browser. RDF links can also be followed by the crawlers of Semantic Web search engines, which may provide sophisticated search and query capabilities over crawled data. As query results are structured data and not just links to HTML pages, they can be used within other applications.
 
Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."
 
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