Linked Data for Science & Industry

Michael Hausenblas http://mhausenblas.info/#i

TUT W3C Web Technology Day: Linked Data for Science and Industry

2012-10-03, Tampere, Finland

What is Linked Data all about?

Large-scale* data integration.

* (think: Web, MNC, etc.)

… and technology-wise?

 URI – entity identity  HTTP – entity access  HTML – entity rendering for humans  RDF – entity rendering for machines  Typed links – entity integration

http://webofdata.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/towards-networked-data /

http://lod-cloud.net/

OK, that’s all nice in theory ... ... but, is anyone really using this stuff?

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

In and for the Enterprise ...

http

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ww

.sbs

grid

.net

/

SBSGRID

Neo4j

http

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o4j.o

rg/

In Science ...

Nature

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ta.n

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e.co

m/

Europeana

http

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o.eu

rope

ana.

eu/li

nked

-ope

n-da

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WorldCat

http

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ww

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ldca

t.org

/

Some final words …

Link long and prosper!