Semantic Web of Linked Data for Research?
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In the beginning was the World Wide Web. Then we were going to have the Semantic Web. (Then we had Web 2.0, but that’s another story.) But maybe the Semantic Web wasn’t semantic enough for some, so they changed the name to Linked Data, and it began to take off a little more. Now there’s an argument on whether all linked data are Linked Data!
The debate started with Andy Powell asking on Twitter what name we should use when all the conditions for Linked Data are met except for one, which was the requirement that data be expressed in standards, specifically RDF (see Andy’s summary). Tim Berners Lee had suggested there were 4 principles for Linked Data.

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