@prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" . rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:BlogPost . @prefix dc: . dc:title "What is the Linked Data Meme about?" ; foaf:maker ns1:this ; rdfs:label "What is the Linked Data Meme about?" . @prefix dt: . @prefix dcterms: . dcterms:created "2009-04-29T11:32:49-04:00"^^dt:dateTime ; dcterms:modified "2009-04-29T16:31:10-04:00"^^dt:dateTime . @prefix sioc: . sioc:id "65c1c9e3bca088f036aa16e00f28c06d" ; sioc:link ; sioc:content "The act of using URIs to "refer to" (reference) Web addressable data objects. It's also the act of using the same URI to de-reference the description of a referenced data object; in this case, the representation of the description is negotiated by a Web client and/or Web server. Thus, you can access the description of a data object via data representation formats such as: JSON, XML, (X)HTML, RDF/XML, N3, Turtle, TriX etc. \n\n\nNote: In proper Web parlance, a data object is referred to as a resource. \n\nSimple example (using DBpedia)\n\nIn the Linked Data realm, If you want to make a reference to the Linked Data meme in a blog post, you are better off using the resource URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data, instead of the Web page URL: http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_Data, which is the address of a physical document (an information conveying artifact) that at best visually presents the negotiated representation of a resource description.\n\nWhy is this valuable?\n\nIn the simplest sense, you only have one focal point for referencing (referring to) and de-referencing (retrieving data about) a given Web resource. It protects you from the impact of Web document location changes (amongst many other things).\n\nRemember, a single URI is a conduit into a realm where the identity, access, representation, presentation, and storage of a resource (data object) are completely distinct. It's the mechanism for conducting data across network, machine, operating system, dbms engine, application, and service (API) boundaries. Thus, without "linked data meme" prescribed URI referencing and de-referencing, we are simply back to "business as usual" re. the industry at large, where networks, operating systems, dbms engines, applications, and services (APIs) become the basis for "data lock-in" and silo construction.\n\nGoing forward\nTake a second to think about the profound virtues of the ubiquitous Web of Linked Document URLs that we have today, and then apply that thinking to the burgeoning Web of Linked Data URIs, that has just turned corner and heading in everyone's direction at full blast. \n\n\nNote to "Social Media" players: Who you know isn't the canonical object of sociality. What you are i.e., your description and the data objects it exposes, are real objects of your sociality :-)\n\nRelated\n\n\nOther post in this Blog Data Space associated with "Linked Data".\n\n" ; atom:title "What is the Linked Data Meme about?" . @prefix ns10: . sioc:has_creator ns10:this ; sioc:has_container . @prefix dbpedia: . sioc:links_to dbpedia:DBpedia , dbpedia:Information , dbpedia:Uniform_Resource_Identifier , , , dbpedia:Blog , dbpedia:Linked_Data , dbpedia:Uniform_Resource_Locator ; atom:source ; atom:author ns1:this ; atom:published "2009-04-29T15:32:49Z" ; atom:updated "2009-04-29T20:31:10Z" . @prefix opl: . opl:isDescribedUsing . ns10:this rdf:type sioc:User . @prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person ; foaf:made . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" . @prefix sioc: . sioc:container_of ; atom:entry ; atom:contains . rdf:type sioct:BlogPost , atom:Entry ; rdfs:label "Linked Data & Identity" ; sioc:links_to . rdf:type sioct:BlogPost , atom:Entry ; rdfs:label "Linked Data Rules Simplified" ; sioc:links_to . @prefix ns7: . ns7:this rdf:type sioc:User ; sioc:creator_of . rdf:type atom:Entry , sioct:BlogPost ; rdfs:label "Getting The Linked Data Value Pyramid Layers Right (Update #2)" ; sioc:links_to . rdf:type sioct:BlogPost , atom:Entry ; rdfs:label "Getting The Linked Data Value Pyramid Layers Right (Update #2)" ; sioc:links_to .