{"id":231,"date":"2009-03-19T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-03-19T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:00:48","slug":"linked-data-and-the-future-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2009\/03\/linked-data-and-the-future-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked Data and the future of the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 4 Februray 2009 at TED<\/a> Sir Tim Berners-Lee unfolded his ideas about the past, present and future of the Web.<\/p>\n

First of all, it is very interesting to see that his initial work on the Web, back then in 1989 when he wrote the first client and server, it was a project on the side after a paper he wrote. His boss at CERN<\/a> considered it \u2018vague but interesting\u2019, according to his notes on the paper. As he mentions, that’s how innovation happens.<\/p>\n

Then, it’s interesting to see where is his focus at the moment. As he ask the audience to repeat like a mantra:\u00a0Raw Data Now!<\/strong> Explaining the difference between documents and data, he says that the important thing to have is Linked Data<\/strong> (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>). And there are three basic rules:<\/p>\n