Linked Data

Way of publishing data on the Web with URIs, HTTP and RDF, so that data sets link to one another the way documents do.

builds on

• Dereferenceable URI concept [src]
• URI concept 1994 [src]

part of

• Semantic Web concept 1998 [src1][src2]

alternative to

• JSON web APIs concept

proposed by

• Linked Data (Design Issues) writing 2006 [src]

subject of

• Linked Data – The Story So Far writing 2009 [src]
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space writing 2011 [src]

built upon by

• BIBFRAME standard 2012 [src]
• DBpedia project 2007 [src]
• id.loc.gov project 2009 [src]
• Linked Open Data concept 2010 [src]
• Solid project c. 2015 [src]