Book presentation: Linked Open Data: The Essentials - A quick start guide for decision makers REEEP Open Data Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE 18 Jan 2011

1. Linked Open Data: The Essentials
A Quick Start Guide for Decision Makers
Linking Open Data to Accelerate Low-Carbon Development
A workshop for decision makers in clean energy organisations
January 18th 2012 in Abu Dhabi, Masdar Institute
Florian Bauer & Martin Kaltenböck
REEEP, Semantic Web Company
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2. LOD: The Essentials – A New Publication
Linked Open Data: The
Essentials
A quick start guide for decision
makers who need to quickly get
up to speed with the Linked
Open Data (LOD) concept and
who want to make their
organization a part of this
movement.

3. LOD: The Essentials – provides answers to key questions
• What do the terms Open Data, Open Government Data and
Linked Open Data actually mean, and what are the differences
between them?
• What do I need to take into account in developing a LOD strategy?
• What does my organization need to do technically in order to open up
and publish its datasets?
• How can I make sure the data is accessible and digestible for others?
• How can I add value to my own data sets by consuming LOD from
others?
• What can be learned existing best practices?
• What are the key potentials of sharing and consuming open datasets?

4. LOD: The Essentials – provides additional resources
• The publication provides comprehensive link sections for
detail information of the topics: Open Government,
Open Government Data and Linked (Open) Data.
• Furthermore every chapter offers a further reading section
at the end to explore additional publications and papers.
• Hand over the LOD essentials book to your IT department to use
the given ‚technical further reading‘sections to enable them to get
familiar with the technical principles of Linked Open Data.
• At the end of chapter 3 (pp 39) you find the ‚Linked Open Data Tool
Box Collection‘ that offers useful software tools for Linked Open Data
Management.

5. LOD: The Essentials - Content
1. From Open Data to Linked Open Data
2. The Power of Linked Open Data
3. Linked Open Data Start Guide
3.1. Publishing Linked Open Data
3.2. Consuming Linked Open Data
4. Best Practice and Examples
4.1. reegle.info Country Profiles
4.2. OpenEI Definitions
4.3. The official home of UK legislation
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6. LOD: The Essentials - Infos
PDF Version available:
http://www.semantic-web.at/LOD-TheEssentials.pdf
http://www.reeep.org/LOD-the-Essentials.pdf
Hardcover on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3902796057/
Editor Contacts:
Florian Bauer, REEEP
florian.bauer@reeep.org
Martin Kaltenböck, SWC
m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at
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