iswc 2012 - linked data meetup

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Data as a new kind of Electricity conducted via

HyperLinks

By Kingsley Idehen

Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software

Twitter: @kidehen

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The Big Data Challenge

Discover Relevant Insights

Across Disparate

Data Sources

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What is Linked Data?

Webby Entity Relationship Graph

Based

Structured Data Representation

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What is RDF?

Webby Entity Relationship Model

Endowed with Explicit Entity Relationship Semantics

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What is the Semantic Web?

Webby Entity Relationship Graph based Structured Data Representation

+

Explicit Entity Relationship Semantics

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Semantic Web Summarized

HyperLinks denote Entities HyperLinks resolve to Entity Description Documents Entity Description Documents bear Entity Relationship

Model based Content Entity Relationship Model based Content is endowed with

Human & Machine readable Entity Relationship Semantics

Entity Relationship Semantics are based on First-order Logic.

Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud (Semantic Web or Webby Big Data)

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Where Are We?

LOD Cloud (essence & pictorial) is viral

Governments are on board (users and funders)

Facebook is on board – a Billion+ profiles and much more

Google is on board – Schema.org is a resounding success (note: recent GoodRelations news)

Read-Write Dimension of the Web taking shape – WebID Authentication protocol and Web Resource Access Controls/Policies

Business Models aren’t so mercurial anymore !!

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What Next?

Demo Time !!