Linked Data Glossary

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==Editors==
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* Bernadette Hyland, 3 Round Stones
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* Ghislain Atemezing, Eurecom
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* Biplav Srivastava, IBM
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==Abstract==
==Abstract==
This document is a glossary of terms defined and used to describe Linked Data, and its associated vocabularies and Best Practices. This document published by the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group as a Working Group Note, is intended to help information management professionals, Web developers, scientists and the general public better understand publishing structured data using Linked Data Principles.  
This document is a glossary of terms defined and used to describe Linked Data, and its associated vocabularies and Best Practices. This document published by the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group as a Working Group Note, is intended to help information management professionals, Web developers, scientists and the general public better understand publishing structured data using Linked Data Principles.  

Revision as of 07:57, 15 March 2013

Editors

  • Bernadette Hyland, 3 Round Stones
  • Ghislain Atemezing, Eurecom
  • Biplav Srivastava, IBM

Abstract

This document is a glossary of terms defined and used to describe Linked Data, and its associated vocabularies and Best Practices. This document published by the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group as a Working Group Note, is intended to help information management professionals, Web developers, scientists and the general public better understand publishing structured data using Linked Data Principles.

This glossary lists terms related to publishing and consuming either Linked Data in the enterprise or Linked Open Data on the public Web.

Terms

Short description Has reference
5 Star Linked Data Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and initiator of the Linked Data project, suggested a 5 star deployment scheme for Linked Data. The 5 Star Linked Data system is cumulative. Each additional star presumes the data meets the criteria of the previous step(s). https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/glossary/index.html#linked-open-data
5 Star Linked Data Diagram 5 Open Data diagram is a graphical representation of each of the 5 Star techniques as described by Tim Berners-Lee. http://5stardata.info/
Apache License Apache License, version 2.0 is used for many Linked Data tools and projects. It is a popular Open Source license published by the Apache Software Foundation. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
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