The Importance of Linked Data

March 29, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Importance of Linked Data

March 29, 2011 – In its purest form, linked data can be found at the research desk in any library. Access to sources and pertinent information connected to, but beyond, your initial inquiry can make your results more inclusive and dynamic.

The article, “Linked Data: Uniting Scotland’s Past,” that we found on Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative inspired this topic. Linked data, as we know it today, consists of any information that has been connected and integrated with other information within the semantic web. The selling point of the semantic web is the way it can build relationships between items that are often easily connected in the human mind but not in computers. Linked data’s role in this is creating the relationships and defining the properties of things that make up the semantic web.

Without linked data, what does the semantic web have to offer?

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.