
265Semantic Data Interoperability
data are available in any format and ve stars means that data are available
in RDF format and are linked with other data sets.
To understand the benets, in 2011 a competition was launched in Estonia
where four private sector service providers were granted funding for devel-
oping demonstrators for exposing and using open data. One of the dem-
onstrators, which is currently under development took the linked data
approach. The main motivators for this choice were scalability and reduc-
tion in the number of technologies for using the data set with other data sets.
While model-based data integration, which ...