An introduction to "Linked and Open Data" for information professionals [ABSTRACT]
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By Zach Beauvais

Abstract

The linking of parts of documents and other materials offered by the Linked Data approach to the web, coupled with the open data philosophy adopted by governments, could offer researchers the chance to identify links between data not possible before and save an enormous amount of time. Zach Beauvais explains how it works.

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The linking of parts of documents and other materials offered by the Linked Data approach to the web, coupled with the open data philosophy adopted by governments, could offer researchers the chance to identify links between data not possible before and save an enormous amount of time. Zach Beauvais explains how it works.

What's Inside:

A document is fundamentally a container for information. You read a document to obtain the facts and figures it contains. Linked Data is, most simply, a way to link together the individual bits and pieces of information (data). This has been called the Web of Things because we can link to the “thing” the document contains. Open Data is a philosophy of publishing data for reuse rather than a “read-only” approach, so Linked and Open Data together create the potential for changing the way information research can be carried out in future. Increasingly state information from governments in both the UK and US are releasing data in these formats so tools that query Linked Data are likely to become part of the research landscape for many years to come.

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