ON LINKED DATA EVOLVING THE WEB INTO A GLOBAL DATA SPACE Authored by, Tom Heath and Christian Bizer

Abstract

Web Engineering has been described as encompassing those “technologies, methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop and maintain Web-based applications leading to better systems, [thus to] enabling and improving the dissemination and use of content and services though the Web.” (Source: International Conference on Web Engineering) An especially interesting aspect of this description is “dissemination and use of content.” Semantic Web technologies and particularly the Linked Data paradigm have evolved as powerful enablers for the transition of the current document-oriented Web into a Web of interlinked data/content and, ultimately, into the Semantic Web.