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The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked documents. As the Web becomes ever more enmeshed with our daily lives, there is a growing desire for direct access to raw data not currently available on the Web or bound up in hypertext documents. Linked Data provides a publishing paradigm in which not only documents, but also data, can be a first class citizen of the Web, thereby enabling the extension of the Web with a global data space based on open standards - the Web of Data. In this Synthesis lecture we provide readers with a detailed technical introduction to Linked Data. We begin by outlining the basic principles of Linked Data, including coverage of relevant aspects of Web architecture. The remainder of the text is based around two main themes - the publication and consumption of Linked Data. Drawing on a practical Linked Data scenario, we provide guidance and best practices on: architectural approaches to publishing Linked Data; choosing URIs and vocabularies to identify and describe resources; deciding what data to return in a description of a resource on the Web; methods and frameworks for automated linking of data sets; and testing and debugging approaches for Linked Data deployments. We give an overview of existing Linked Data applications and then examine the architectures that are used to consume Linked Data from the Web, alongside existing tools and frameworks that enable these. Readers can expect to gain a rich technical understanding of Linked Data fundamentals, as the basis for application development, research or further study. Table of Contents: List of Figures / Introduction / Principles of Linked Data / The Web of Data / Linked Data Design Considerations / Recipes for Publishing Linked Data / Consuming Linked Data / Summary and Outlook
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Linked Data: the Definite Book
28 July 2011
Format:Paperback
As the authors write in their preface: "Summarizing the state of the art in Linked Data was a job that needed doing" - and Tom Heath together with Chris Bizer have definitely done a great job in writing an eminently practical synopsis of the state of the art in the field. They start by positioning Linked Data in the bigger picture of the WWW and its evolution from a web of documents to a global data space that contains not only genuine web resources - "information resources" in the W3C lingo - but also "non information resources", things in the 'real' world (i. e. the one outside the web) and which can be represented in the WWW, identified by uniform identifiers (URIs) and linked to other resources by 'typed' links which give information regarding the link 'semantics' that can be processed by machines. After thus positioning Linked Data in this nutshell vision of the evolution of WWW architecture and giving a thorough introduction to RDF as the key standard the authors spend the rest of the 136 pages discussing design issues (chapter 4), on giving recipes as to how to publish data according to the linked data principles (chapter 5) and on how to consume such data from the web (chapter 6) that turns into one huge, integrated data space supported by open, community-driven standards this way. Numerous examples are given throughout the whole book, making it a very useful and relatively concise tutorial covering a complex and quickly evolving field.
At the time of writing this review, the book can be appraised as the reference to all practical issues of the field: a 'must read' for anyone wishing to implement or to use linked data or simply wishing to understand the technical reality of what risks to degenerate into a technical buzzword.
The one question Bizer and Heath have consistently avoided is the (non-technical) issue of the 'openness' of Linked Data: does Linked Data necessarily imply 'Linked Open Data'? The purely technical answer is "no" - and the authors restrict themselves to this technical answer, which probably again is a virtue rather than a deficit, thus retaining the authoritative potential of their book which remains useful for the proponents of Linked Open Data and for those implementing 'Linked Data behind a Firewall' alike.
I recommend this book without reservation and will be glad to use it in my lectures and courses at Humboldt University zu Berlin!
At the time of writing this review, the book can be appraised as the reference to all practical issues of the field: a 'must read' for anyone wishing to implement or to use linked data or simply wishing to understand the technical reality of what risks to degenerate into a technical buzzword.
The one question Bizer and Heath have consistently avoided is the (non-technical) issue of the 'openness' of Linked Data: does Linked Data necessarily imply 'Linked Open Data'? The purely technical answer is "no" - and the authors restrict themselves to this technical answer, which probably again is a virtue rather than a deficit, thus retaining the authoritative potential of their book which remains useful for the proponents of Linked Open Data and for those implementing 'Linked Data behind a Firewall' alike.
I recommend this book without reservation and will be glad to use it in my lectures and courses at Humboldt University zu Berlin!
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Excellent book
20 Jun 2011
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Excellent book on Linked Data. Covers the subject clearly and easily. Besides being a book written by the precursors of the Linked Data Project.
Recommended!
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