Linked data

Linked Data is a term used to describe openly accessible and interlinked data about "Things" on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee outlined four principles of Linked Data in his Design Issues: Linked Data note, paraphrased along the following lines:

• Use URIs to identify things that you expose to the Web as resources.
• Use HTTP URIs so that people can locate and look up (dereference) these things.
• Provide useful information about the resource when its URI is dereferenced.
• Include links to other, related URIs in the exposed data as a means of improving information discovery on the Web.

See Also

• W3C Linking Open Data community project
• Linked Data Community Wiki
• Tutorial on How to publish Linked Data on the Web