http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1342Daniel Lewis has put together a nice collection of Linked Data related posts that illustrate the fundamentals of the Linked Data Web and the vital role that Virtuoso plays as a deployment platform. Remember, Virtuoso was architected in 1998 (see Virtuoso History) in anticipation of the eventual Internet, Intranet, and Extranet level requirements for a different kind of Server. At the time of Virtuoso's inception, many thought our desire to build a multi-protocol, multi-model, and multi-purpose, virtual and native data server was sheer craziness, but we pressed on (courtesy of our vision and technical capabilities). Today, we have a very sophisticated Universal Server Platform (in Open Source and Commercial forms) that is naturally equipped to do the following via very simple interfaces: - Produce RDF Linked Data from non RDF Data Sources (Heterogeneous SQL, XML, Web Services) - Provide highly scalable RDF Data Management via a Quad Store (DBpedia is an example of a live demonstration) - Sophisticated Deployment of Linked Data that exploits the power of SPARQL - Powerful WebDAV innovations that simplify read-write mode interaction with Linked Data - Use Web Data Virtualization to address the pain and frustration associated with Web Data Silos (e.g. OpenLink Data Spaces layer stop Virtuoso that delivers Personal Data Spaces / Unified Storage in the Clouds) - Deliver a Linked Data development and deployment platform to .NET (VB, C#) , Java, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, 'C', C++, and other developers - More...Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:32:47 GMTVirtuoso Universal Server 08.03.3334Kingsley Uyi Idehenhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/weblog/public/images/vbloglogo.gifhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1342I have seen the future and it's full of Linked Data! :-)8831