Part 3. Linked Data in the wild

What is RDFa? How can you use it to enhance your HTML web pages and improve search engine optimization? What’s the Good Relations vocabulary, and how can you use it to improve click-through rates? What is schema.org, and how can you use its vocabularies with RDFa to enhance web pages for your business? What are the benefits of RDF databases? What techniques should you use to optimize sharing your data and projects on the Web? What are sitemaps, and why should you use them?

Now that you understand how to consume and publish Linked Data, chapters 6-8 will show you more complex applications of Linked Data. We’ll demonstrate how to enhance your web pages and improve search engine optimization. We’ll demonstrate how RDF facilitates the aggregation of diverse data sources in diverse formats including non-RDF data. We’ll walk you through applications where we aggregate diverse data including EPA and NOAA sources, store it in an RDF database, and query that content using SPARQL.

You’ll be able to optimize the inclusion of your projects and datasets in Semantic Web search results by publishing DOAP files of your projects and VoID files for your datasets along with a semantic sitemap. You’ll be able to publish your qualified datasets on the LOD cloud for others to use.