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Everything about Linked data
Structured data and method for its publication
In computing, linked data is structured data which is associated with 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 become a global database. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Linked dataA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Linked open data in authoring virtual exhibitionsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Europeana Linked Open Data – data.europeana.euCited 80 times
- Go sideways: DBpediaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Geopolitical ontologyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Europeana Linked Open Data – data.europeana.eu
Linked Data for libraries
Visualisation of Linked Data – Reprise
Transforming meteorological data into Linked Data
Linked Data in Government
Amsterdam Museum Linked Open Data
Big linked cancer data: Integrating linked TCGA and PubMed
Linked SDMX Data
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and ConstructionManuel Martinez, Raimar Scherer · 2004
IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Electrical · 1991- 📕Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered MetadataGetaneh Alemu · 2022
- 📕Further results for non-gimbaled antenna pointingStephen John Horan · 1996
- 📕Bit-error-rate testing of fiber optic data links for MMIC-based phased array antennasKurt A. Shalkhauser · 1990
Methodological Developments in Data LinkageKatie Harron, Harvey Goldstein · 2015- 📕(Open) Linked Data in BibliothekenPatrick Danowski, Adrian Pohl · 2013
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