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I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures . The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3.0" concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data , and 3) the long-running saga that is the Semantic Web . Greg's series is probably the best explanation I've read all year about the way these trends are converging. In this post I'll highlight some of Greg's thoughts and add some of my own. Web 3.0: What Comes After 2.0 (!) Part 1 of Boutin's series was about how Web 3.0 will not solve the vexing issue of Information Overload, at least not yet, because there is so much groundwork to lay first.
Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web - ReadWriteWeb
This site came out of a 2007 working group held in Sebastopol, California, USA which developed the 8 Principles of Open Government Data . These principles have become the de facto starting point for evaluating openness in government records.
www.opengovdata.org - Open Government Working Group
Linked Data | Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data , information , and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF ."