Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data
via ted.com
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of HTTP, HTML and URLs, tells us about the genesis of the World-Wide-Web. Then Tim reminds us that there is still very little data available on the web. From there he explains that we need data relationships, what he calls Linked Data.
Wikipedia contains a lot of data. DBpedia extracts that data out of the text and make it available as Linked Data.
Governments around the world hold a lot of data, once this data becomes available, new services can emerge.
Lots of data is also in social networks, although it is still not liberated from services, i.e. it is not available as Linked Data.
Posted by Jean Vincent
