LinkedData is to spreadsheets and databases what the Web of hypertext documents is to word processor files.
- Use URIs as names for things
- Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
- When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
- Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
If you're coming to Banff, note the Linked Data session Friday May 11 in the WWW2007 Dev Track (blogged here), and a LinkedData BOF/gathering idea (blogged here).
See also some writings and code:
WWW2007 Linked Data Presentations:
Writings:
Tabulator: Exploring and Analyzing linked data on the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee et. al, SWUI '06
Bizer, Gauß, Cyganiak The Sematic Web Client Library
Christian Bizer et al.: Interlinking Open Data on the Web
Sauermann et al.: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
Alistair Miles et al.: Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
Richard Cyganiak: Debugging Semantic Web sites with cURL
Wikipedia Entry on Linked Data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data, please update.
Tutorial on How to publish Linked Data on the Web
Concerns about the downside to an HTTP-scheme monopoly for RDF. (See HCLS thread also: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise?)
Deploying Linked Data (using Virtuoso)
Examples of Linked Data:
See DataSets
Client side tools:
Server side tools:
dbview.py by DanConnolly, Rob Crowell and TimBL
Virtuoso - "Sponger" component of Virtuoso's SPARQL Engine, RDF Views of SQL, and the HTTP engine's Linked Data Deployment features
P2R - expose Prolog knowledge base as linked data (when bundled with UriSpace)
Live Demos:
GRDDL Test Suite - OpenLink RDF Browser permalink
Hotel Ratings & Reviews - Dynamic Data Page
Hotel Ratings & Reviews - SPARQL Query Definition File (.rq)
WWW2007 Schedule via OpenLink RDF Browser consuming WWW 2007 Event URI from TimBL
Extending Linked Data:
BreadcrumbProtocols are conventions by which information is left by data publishers to allow data consumers to follow.
SemanticSitemap: Advertising the presence of RDF data on a host
Meetups:
Community:
see also: GrddlImplementations, SparqlImplementations, SparqlEndpoints
Discussion
Open request, since I simply don't know any of you:
When I read the excitement about LinkedData, I feel over-looked and unappreciated; I was talking about this in 2004, to everyone I could get to listen to me, about this idea. (See: NetworkedData.)
When I read "old page on related topic" on this page, I feel marginalized.
I thought this was the most important part of the SemanticWeb. I've told all my friends in Seattle, and I've told people this at WikiSym. I wrote about this here on and various other places on the Internet. Here's me saying it in 2004: "In fact, the semantic web is about networked data. I believe it should be explained to techies in those terms." (2004) I wrote nLSD based on this interpretation, and then MachineCodeBlocks (2005.) I don't know anyone in the community, so I didn't say much, but I did talk with sbp.
I've made it my life's mission to better the world through collaboration technologies, so I need some recognition, so that people are inclined to take me seriously. (example of where it could have helped)
Will someone (anyone) recognize my participation in the emergence of this idea? I am a Python programmer, I'm handy with wx (GUI programming,) and DanC's noted I'm a quick study. I can contribute a lot. Will someone give me a share in the (granted, small, footnote-sized) story, about the recognition of LinkedData?
Thank you,
-- LionKimbro
Please feel welcomed to the Linking Open Data (LOD) Community 
Remember, the Web is about building connections. As you've stated, "time" is a product of "awareness", so your Linked Data fingerprints aren't lost time with regards to our very sticky Web
Please to the following to fully exposed your Linked Data heritage:
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- Drop an introductory note (basically a link to this page)