Linked data or semantic web has been on Berners-Lee’s agenda for years, but it is starting to come into being these days. If you are a publisher, you need to know about the concepts. The video of Sir Tim talking at TED is embedded in this link.

One of the concepts we noted was Linked Data, an idea whose time has come in 2009. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, gave a must-view talk at the TED Conference earlier this year, evangelizing Linked Data. He said that Linked Data was a sea change akin to the invention of the WWW itself.

via Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care.

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