Part 1. The Linked Data Web

What is Linked Data? What is the Resource Description Framework (RDF)? What is the relationship between RDF and Linked Data? How is data expressed using RDF? Why is publishing 5-Star Linked Data beneficial? Where do you find Linked Data, and how can you use it in your own applications?

In these first three chapters, we’ll explore these questions and others. We’ll introduce you to Linked Data, place it in context, outline its principles, and show you how to use it by walking you through your first Linked Data application. We’ll expose you to the multiple facets of consuming Linked Data from the Web. We’ll find Linked Data on the Web both manually and through the use of special tools. We’ll illustrate how you develop programs that retrieve Linked Data from one source and use those results to retrieve additional data from a different data source.