ISWC 2012 - Linked Data Meetup

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Data as a new kind of Electricity conducted via

HyperLinks

By Kingsley Idehen

Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software

Twitter: @kidehen


The Big Data Challenge

Discover Relevant Insights

Across Disparate

Data Sources


What is Linked Data?

Webby Entity Relationship Graph

Based

Structured Data Representation


What is RDF?

Webby Entity Relationship Model

Endowed with Explicit Entity Relationship Semantics


What is the Semantic Web?

Webby Entity Relationship Graph based Structured Data Representation

+

Explicit Entity Relationship Semantics


Semantic Web Summarized

HyperLinks denote Entities HyperLinks resolve to Entity Description Documents Entity Description Documents bear Entity Relationship

Model based Content Entity Relationship Model based Content is endowed with

Human & Machine readable Entity Relationship Semantics

Entity Relationship Semantics are based on First-order Logic.

Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud (Semantic Web or Webby Big Data)



Where Are We?

LOD Cloud (essence & pictorial) is viral

Governments are on board (users and funders)

Facebook is on board – a Billion+ profiles and much more

Google is on board – Schema.org is a resounding success (note: recent GoodRelations news)

Read-Write Dimension of the Web taking shape – WebID Authentication protocol and Web Resource Access Controls/Policies

Business Models aren’t so mercurial anymore !!


What Next?

Demo Time !!

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