Linked data
Linked data kaldes også semantic web, fordi det handler om at forklare meningen med data. Som illustrationen ovenfor viser, er der bare inden for byggeri og infrastruktur en række forskellige datamodeller i brug, og derfor behov for at kombinere dem. Dertil kommer et utal af forskellige datastrukturer. Det kræver en fælles måde at publicere dem på, og det er det linked data handler om.

Linked data er ganske enkelt ideen om at gøre mange forskellige slags data tilgængelig på internettet, ved at forklare dem så computere kan søge i dem. Ikke ved at reorganisere dem efter en anden datamodel eller datastruktur end den de er lavet ud fra, men ved at bruge standard relationer og regler til at forklare hvad det er for en viden man lægger ud.

Med andre ord handler Linked data om at indse at der er virkelig mange domæner for viden i verden, og at vi ikke skal tvinge andres viden ind i vores egen orden, men derimod bede dem om at forklare den sådan at vi kan anvende den i kombination med vores egen.

Linked data teknologi egner sig defor også godt til store organisationer, som har mange forskellige datasæt, som der ikke er ressourcer til at “skrive om”.

Læs mere om linked data hos the Word Wide Web Consortium og på Wikipedia.

English version:
Linked data is also called semantic web, because it deals with explaining the meaning of data. As the illustration shows, a range of different datamodels has been developed within the construction and infrastructure industry, and thus a need for combining them. Furthermore there is a lot bespoke data structures in use in the industry. This calls for a common way of publishing, and that is what linked data is all about.

Linked data is simply the idea of making very diverse data available on the internet, by explaining them in a way that makes them searchable for computers. Not by reorganizing them after some other datamodel or data structure than the one they were originally created from, but by using standardized relations and rules to explain what kind of knowledge they represent.

In other words, linked data is all about realizing that there is a lot of knowledge domains out there. We should not force anyone to conform to a certain order, but instead ask them to explain their knowledge in a way that allows us to combine it with our own.

Linked data technology is useful for external publishing purposes, as well as internal in large organisations, who usually deals with multiple data sets.

Read more about linked data at Word Wide Web Consortium and Wikipedia.