Chapter 10. Publishing Linked Data—a recap
This chapter covers
- A summary of publishing Linked Data
In this chapter, we’ll capture the process of publishing Linked Data from preparation to public publication and highlight critical steps in this process. You want to publish your data using the RDF data model because it is the international standard for representing data on the Web. You want to use the Linked Data principles to describe your data so others can find and reuse it more easily. There are many serialization formats (as described in chapter 2) but only one data model. This standardized model then enables data sources to be
- Easily crawled by search engines
- Accessed using generic data browsers
- Easily integrated with other data from diverse data sources
- Expressed using different schemata
- Expressed using different serialization formats
- Explored by following URIs to additional information
- Published on the Web and easily shared
We’ve examined each of the steps of this process in previous chapters. But sometimes seeing the big picture is difficult when you’re learning individual steps. In this section, we’re going to focus on the sequence of steps you’d follow to publish Linked Data. As always, we’ll be employing Linked Data publishing best practices, which encompass the Linked Data principles. These principles provide a framework for publishing and consuming data on the Web but don’t provide implementation details. The implementation steps are:
1. Prepare your data.