Linked Data

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Chapter 1. Introducing Linked Data

Figure 1.1. The 5-Star Linked Data mug, available from cafepress.com. The mug may be ordered either with the “Open” and “Open license” labels or without them; Linked Open Data uses both, Linked Data uses neither. Sales of the mugs benefit the W3C.

Figure 1.2. Google’s rich snippets provide nicely formatted search results that increase user click-through rates by 15–30%.

Figure 1.3. The Facebook Like button can be placed on any page on the Web. Facebook uses this to connect pages outside Facebook to the Facebook social graph.

Figure 1.4. DBpedia converts structured information from Wikipedia’s info boxes into Linked Data. The BBC uses content from DBpedia and other Linked Data sources to create ...