Linked data

In computing, linked data is structured data which is associated with ("linked" to) 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.[1] Part of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.[2]

Linked data builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages and hyperlinks only for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers (machine readable). Linked data may also be open data, in which case it is usually described as Linked Open Data.[3]

  1. ^ Tim Berners-Lee (2006-07-27). "Linked Data". Design Issues. W3C. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  2. ^ "Linked Data as JSON". Linked Data as JSON. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  3. ^ "What are Linked Data and Linked Open Data?". Ontotext. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
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