Tim Berners-Lee hold a presentation on Linked Data (see www.dbpedia.org) today. This slide set (just click in the area to move through the slides) was presented at the TED 2009 conference, „The Great Unveiling“ in Long Beach, CA. USA, 4, Feb 2009.
(via @heartnsoul)
Update 9.2.2009
Details dazu, was Berners-Lee mit seinem Vortrag genau meint, finden sich in der Semantic Web Initiative.
Zitat:
The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar?
Why not? Because we don’t have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself.
The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.
Update 22.10.2009
Netzpolitik tweetet „Britische Regierung startet mit Hilfe von Tim Berners-Lee offene Daten-API. http://bit.ly/3lMfeU #opengovernment“ und berichtet mit „Britische Regierung startet Daten-API“. Ziel:
Ziel des Netzwerkes ist es den freien und ungehinderten Zugang aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu allen Daten aus Politik, Verwaltung und Wissenschaft zu ermöglichen und zu fördern.
Why do I blog this?Berners-Lee shows, that actually we put all our data into walled gardens or silos. Though I think he did not recognize, that opening this data via API’s is firing a lot of cool services. So things are moving in this direction, mor eopenness of data, more access on raw data. Twitter would be a perfect example how „thousands of flowers blossom“ based on the API which gives access to the data. I am curious to get the full coverage of his presentation with audio. Meanwhile this snippet of uncommented slides will do the job.
