Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he is building a Web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, and video: unlock our data and re-frame the way we use it together.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6XIICm_qo
Keywords: Web of Data, Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Open Government Data
Author: Berners-Lee, Tim
Publisher: TED
Date created: 2009-03-19 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P20M
Educational audience: generalPublic
Interactivity type: expositive
- Knows HyperText Markup Language, or HTML (1991+), as a language for "marking up" the content and multimedia components of Web pages.
- Knows Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP (1991+), as the basic technology for resolving hyperlinks and transferring data on the World Wide Web.
- Understands that Linked Data (2006) extended the notion of a web of documents (the Web) to a notion of a web of finer-grained data (the Linked Data cloud).
- Knows the "five stars" of Open Data: put data on the Web, preferably in a structured and preferably non-proprietary format, using URIs to name things, and link to other data.
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