Oli Bartlett of the BBC recently discussed the latest uses of linked data at the BBC. He writes, “The Linked Data Platform is one of the legacies of the BBC Sport 2012 Olympics website. You may have read my blog post on the work we did for the Olympic Data Service. One aspect of the service delivered the semantic framework for the 10,000 athlete pages and a page per event, discipline, country and venue. This framework provides the semantic graph of data (the linked data containing the athletes, events and venues and their associations with each other) and the APIs on this data. It was all built on the Dynamic Semantic Publishing (DSP) platform which facilitates the publication of automated metadata driven web pages and had originally been developed for the football World Cup in 2010.” Read more

The W3C has published a Working Draft of the Linked Data Platform 1.0

Earlier this year, the Linked Data Working Group was formed in response to a member submission (Full Disclosure: SemanticWeb.com was a co-sponsor of that submission).  The original proposal put forward by IBM stated the need as, “We believe that Linked Data has the potential to solve some important problems that have frustrated the IT industry for many years, or at least to make significant advances in that direction. But this potential will be realized only if we can establish and communicate a much richer body of knowledge about how to exploit these technologies. In some cases, there also are gaps in the Linked Data standards that need to be addressed.”

As a working draft, the document published yesterday is open for public review, but The Linked Data Platform work represents a significant move forward in the creation of a standard for building enterprise systems around Linked Data. The document lays out “A set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF.”

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In December 2011, the World Wide Web Consortium held “The Linked Enterprise Data Patterns workshop,” and that workshop ended with unanimous agreement that “the W3C should create a Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation which defines a Linked Data Platform.”

In response to that call, SemanticWeb.com has joined experts from fellow W3C member Organizations IBM, DERI, EMC, Oracle, Red Hat, and Tasktop in submitting the “Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0” specification as a W3C Member Submission.  This specification defines a set of best practices and a simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF.  The specification builds on the four principles Tim Berners-Lee used to define “Linked Data” and provides some new rules as well as clarifications and extensions to achieve greater interoperability between Linked Data implementations.

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