A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

[via TED]

Why do I blog this?

The concept of open linked data gets more and more traction and is the logical consequence of opening up web accessible services via APIs, feeds or data dumps. It’s the Semantic Web with a clearer marketing and an understandable concept. At Tagcrumbs we are already supporting linked data principles and each place has a meaningful clear identifier [1] and an RDF representation [2] with a pointer to Geonames data. With a tool like the OpenLink Data Explorer you can get from the Tagcrumbs place data to city information from Geonames to Wikipedia articles nearby to census data and to a universe of web accessible data supporting the same technology stack, great. It’s the beginning of more advanced services with regards to information retrieval and information management.

[1] http://www.tagcrumbs.com/Ben/placemarks/tour-eiffel

[2] http://www.tagcrumbs.com/Ben/placemarks/tour-eiffel.rdf

Related posts:

• FYI: Importance of Open Linked Data
• Cite: The Semantic Web
• FYI: Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
• Video Lectures . Net

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