AIC Seminar Series

The World Wide Web is a global information space build on the idea to set hyperlinks between documents. In a similar fashion, Linked Data technologies provide for setting data links between records in distinct databases and thus connect these databases into open data spaces that provide for the discovery of related data by following links between databases. Linked Data technologies have been adopted by an increasing number of Web data providers over the last three years, leading to the creation of a global data space containing billions of assertions, the Web of Linked Data. In his talk, Professor Christian Bizer will introduce the principle ideas behind Linked Data, give an overview of the emerging Web of Linked Data, and explain the state-of-the-art in applications that consume Linked Data from the Web.

Professor Christian Bizer is the head of the Web-based Systems Group at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. The group explores technical and economic questions concerning the development of global, decentralized information environments. The results of his work include the Named Graphs data model, which was adopted into the W3C SPARQL standard, and the D2RQ mapping language which is widely used for mapping relational databases to the Web of Linked Data. He initialized the Linking Open Data community project and the DBpedia project.

Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data – The Story So Far. http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf