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Big Picture Thinking: About Linked Data

Image by Anders Abrahamsson. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons' licensing.
Image by Anders Abrahamsson. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing.

Imma Subirats writes: “The main difference between the web of hypertext and the Semantic Web is that while the first links html pages or documents, the second goes beyond the concept of document and links structured data. In this context, Linked Data is the set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the web. This particular scenario is beneficial for digital repositories, as a way to enhance the visibility and interoperability of data by linking their content into the wider Web of Data.”…

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