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Summary of what is to come...

One difficulty, the first time you discover linked data on the Web, is that the initiative is presented under different names, each name insisting on a different facet of the overall architecture:

• The name “Web of data” insists on the opportunity now offered to us on the Web to open silos of data of all sizes, from the dataset of an address book up to immense genomic databases, and to exchange, to connect, to mix them on the Web according to our needs.
• The name "linked open data" focuses on the opportunity to exploit open data from the Web in our applications and the high added value there is in using and reusing URIs to join assertions from different sources. This name also reminds us that linked data are not necessarily open and that all the techniques we are introducing here can be used in private spaces (intranets, intrawebs, extranets, etc.)
• The name "giant global graph" puts into perspective the thousands of links between data distributed on the Web and which, joined through URIs, produce a giant graph.
• The name “semantic web” emphasizes the ability we now have to exchange our data schemas, in addition to datasets, and the associated semantics in order to enrich the range of automatic processing that can be performed on them.

But in fact, these names are just different facets of one global initiative.

Let us summarize in six points the ideas of a Web of linked data and a semantic Web:

https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Fabien.Gandon/docs/semweb/

...and remember... “applications pass but data remain”  

To go further...

At W3C:

• The  “Web Data” activity at W3C
  
• Some of the tools implementing the standards of linked data and semantic Web for various programming languages and platforms. These are Wiki pages to be consulted and enriched.

Books:

• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Dean Allemang, James Hendler
• Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool.

Video: "Semantic Web & the Web of Data: when the link makes sense"

Decks of slides:

• "Semantic Web Good News" by Frank Van Harmelen (2010)
  

  
  

  Semantic Web Good News from Frank Van Harmelen
  
• "Evolving the Web into a Global Dataspace – Advances and Applications"  by Chris Bizer Chris Bizer
  
  Evolving the Web into a Global Dataspace – Advances and Applications from Chris Bizer
  
• "Introduction to Linked Data", Presentation given at the "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web" Tutorial at 2009 International Semantic Web Conference by  Juan Sequeda,
  
  Introduction to Linked Data from Juan Sequeda
  
• "An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data" by Fabien Gandon
  
  An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data from Fabien Gandon
  
• And some other decks of slides