Section V Linked Data
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) was first introduced to provide machine-understandable description of digital artifacts on the network. It evolved along with the development of the concept of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for any kind of resources, and it quickly become the standard descriptive language of the Semantic Web, providing the basis for other richer languages, such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
In 2004 Edward Feigenbaum, considered the “father of expert systems,” made a breakthrough in how to think about semantics on the web: “Path of maximal return is more knowledge, not more logic” (Feigenbaum, 2004). Some years later, in January 2007 the Linking Open Data project, a community effort ...
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