This document introduces linked data, which was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1998 as a way to connect data on the web through URIs. It discusses how previous data formats focused on documents rather than directly connecting data. Linked data follows four principles: using URIs to name things on the web, making the URIs resolve to web resources that provide information about the thing, and using standards like RDF and HTTP to share and connect information.

1. a quick intro into
linked data

2. Web of Documents

3. from humans
for humans
Web of Documents

4. and machines?
not really
welcome …
Web of Documents

5. then, in 1998, an
idea took shape:
linked data, by
Tim Berners-Lee.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData

6. link
DATA
rather than
DOCUMENTS
Web of Data

7. but wait. haven’t
we been doing
that for years,
now?
Web of Data

8. we have CSV,
relational data,
XML, key-value
data, etc.
Web of Data

9. true. but it’s not
about the surface
or exchange
syntax.
Web of Data

10. actually it is
about a data (RDF)
and naming (URI)
model on the
Web.
Web of Data