Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition

Distributing Data across the Web

Data are most often represented in tabular form, in which each row represents some item we are describing, and each column represents some property of those items. The cells in the table are the particular values for those properties. Table 3.1 shows a sample of some data about works completed around the time of Shakespeare.

Table 3.1

Tabular Data about Elizabethan Literature and Music

ID	Title	Author	Medium	Year
1	As You Like It	Shakespeare	Play	1599
2	Hamlet	Shakespeare	Play	1604
3	Othello	Shakespeare	Play	1603
4	“Sonnet 78”	Shakespeare	Poem	1609
5	Astrophil and Stella	Sir Phillip Sidney	Poem	1590
6	Edward II	Christopher Marlowe	Play	1592
7	Hero and Leander	Christopher Marlowe	Poem	1593
8	Greensleeves ...