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4 API Trends Seen in Programmable Web's Milestone Numbers - ReadWriteCloud. The numbers of APIs on Programmable Web has shot to 3,000, up from 2,000 one year ago. The numbers show trends in the overall use of APIs, the way they are being applied and the now dominant place that REST and JSON have compared to other APIs and data formats. The increase is testament to Programmable Web and the excellent service that the group has provided and the increasing popularity of APIs in all kinds of use cases. The increase in APIs has been steady and steep over the past few years. It took three years to get to 1,000 APIs and less than two years to reach the 2,000 mark. Executive Editor Adam DuVander posts that some trends are emerging as APIs increase in popularity: The Service is the API: APIs are launching from scratch without any associated service.

Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space. A skim-read introduction to linked data. Introduction to Linked Open Data for Visualization Creators on Datavisualization. Introduction to Linked Open Data for Visualization Creators Last week ReadWriteWeb asked: “Is Linked Data Gaining Acceptance?” Our answer: definitely yes. Projects like DBPedia, a community effort to structure the information from Wikipedia and provide it as Linked Open Data, have come a long way and work really well.

For example, you can search for all scientists born in Zürich, Switzerland. But you don’t have to stop there! Because the data is linked, you can open up the definition of “Zürich” and find much more related information. Back in 2001 Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborators published a seminal article called “The Semantic Web” in which they presented their idea of “a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers [and] will unleash a revolution of new possibilities”. First up is the term Semantic Web. The meaning of “a populated place” in this case is clearly defined, so that others can look up what it means exactly and also use this definition themselves. Linked Data and URI:s for Enterprises. Linked Data star scheme by example.

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Welcome — LOD2 – Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data. Linked Data (and the Web of Data)