The Emerging Web of Linked Data

The paper discusses the semantic Web and Linked Data. The classic World Wide Web is built upon the idea of setting hyperlinks between Web documents. These hyperlinks are the basis for navigating and crawling the Web.Technologically, the core idea of Linked Data is to use HTTP URLs not only to identi...

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Published inIEEE intelligent systems Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 87 - 92
Main Author Bizer, C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY IEEE 01.09.2009
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Application programming interfaces
Applied sciences
Business
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Data sources
Exact sciences and technology
Information management
Information retrieval
Intelligent systems
Joining processes
Life sciences
linked data
Links
Mashups
Online information retrieval
Ontology
Resource description framework
Runtime
Semantic Web
Semantics
Servers (computers)
Software
Space technology
Vocabulary
Web of Linked Data
Web server
World Wide Web
XML
Hypertext
Data link
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ISSN1541-1672
1941-1294
DOI10.1109/MIS.2009.102

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Summary:The paper discusses the semantic Web and Linked Data. The classic World Wide Web is built upon the idea of setting hyperlinks between Web documents. These hyperlinks are the basis for navigating and crawling the Web.Technologically, the core idea of Linked Data is to use HTTP URLs not only to identify Web documents, but also to identify arbitrary real world entities.Data about these entities is represented using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Whenever a Web client resolves one of these URLs, the corresponding Web server provides an RDF/ XML or RDFa description of the identified entity. These descriptions can contain links to entities described by other data sources.The Web of Linked Data can be seen as an additional layer that is tightly interwoven with the classic document Web. The author mentions the application of Linked Data in media, publications, life sciences, geographic data, user-generated content, and cross-domain data sources. The paper concludes by stating that the Web has succeeded as a single global information space that has dramatically changed the way we use information, disrupted business models, and led to profound societal change.
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ISSN:1541-1672
1941-1294
DOI:10.1109/MIS.2009.102