10 Ideas For Web of Data Apps. At the end of last week, we posted an open thread asking what application you'd build (or would like someone else to build) using linked data or open data. The thread was inspired by Georgi Kobilarov. In this post, we list 10 of the best ideas we received. A number of the suggested apps were for social good, for example apps for improving sustainability and finding missing persons. Other apps were more lifestyle-oriented, for example for cooking and genealogy.
A few were business focused, such as a brand marketing app and a point-of-sale system. Of course a couple were just plain ol' geeky, which we love too! Firstly, a quick refresher course on the terminology. Missing Persons Juan Sequeda, co-founder of Semantic Web Austin, has an idea for using linked data "to integrate data from displaced populations, specifically in Colombia. " Sustainability In short, Bernard wants a linked data equivalent to WiserEarth - an online community for people interested in sustainability.
A Better World 1. Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care. Last week we discussed how the current era of the Web is evolving. One of the concepts we noted was Linked Data, an idea whose time has come in 2009. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, gave a must-view talk at the TED Conference earlier this year, evangelizing Linked Data. He said that Linked Data was a sea change akin to the invention of the WWW itself. We've gone from a Web of documents, via the WWW, to a Web of data. Berners-Lee is now on a crusade for everyone from government departments, to individuals, to open up their data and put it on the Web - so that others can link to it and use it. Linked Data: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Linked Data is an official W3C project. Tim Berners-Lee described Linked Data as a grassroots movement in his TED presentation.
Linked Data in a Nutshell In a W3C memo that Berners-Lee published in July 2007, he described four principles of Linked Data. Use URIs to identify things that you expose to the Web as resources.