How to publish Linked Data on the Web

The goal of Linked Data is to enable people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can share documents today.

The term Linked Data was coined by Tim Berners-Lee in his Linked Data Web architecture note. The term refers to a style of publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web. The basic assumption behind Linked Data is that the value and usefulness of data increases the more it is interlinked with other data. In summary, Linked Data is simply about using the Web to create typed links between data from different sources.

The basic tenets of Linked Data are to:

1. use the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web
2. use RDF links to interlink data from different data sources

Applying both principles leads to the creation of a data commons on the Web, a space where people and organizations can post and consume data about anything. This data commons is often called the Web of Data or Semantic Web.