Open Knowledge Conference

Consuming Linked Data from the Web

The World Wide Web is a global information space based on the idea to set hyperlinks between documents. In a similar fashion, Linked Data technologies provide for setting data links between records in distinct databases and thus to connect these databases into a global public data space. Linked Data technologies have been adopted by an increasing number of data providers over the last four years. The resulting Web of Linked Data currently contains approximately 25 billion RDF triples and is covering domains such as geographic information, people, companies, online communities, films, music, books and scientific publications. In his talk, Christian Bizer will give an overview of the tasks involved in consuming Linked Data from the Web, combine and integrate data from multiple sources, and assess the quality of Web data. He will refer to open-source tools for handling these tasks and will provide practical guidance for developing Linked Data applications.

by Chris Bizer, on June, 30th at 19:00 in Track II

Chris Bizer is the head of the Web-based Systems Group at Freie Universität Berlin. He explores technical and economic questions concerning the development of global, decentralized information environments. His current research focus is the evolution of the World Wide Web from a medium for the publication of documents into a global public data space. Christian Bizer has initialized the W3C Linking Open Data community effort which is interlinking large numbers of data sources on the Web, and co-founded the DBpedia project which derives a comprehensive knowledge base from Wikipedia.