Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web

Key Reference Documents

• Design Issues: Linked Data, by Tim Berners-Lee
• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer

Textual Guides/Tutorials

• Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer
• How to Publish Linked Data on the Web (Tutorial), by Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, Tom Heath (superseded by the Linked Data book, by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer)
• Introducing Linked Data and the Semantic Web
• Introducing Graph Data
• Introducing RDF/XML
• Semantic Modelling
• Introducing RDFS and OWL
• Deploying Linked Data using OpenLink Virtuoso
• Querying Semantic Data
• Learn Linked Data - A growing collection of tutorials, essays, links and discussion about Linked Data and related topics.

Video Tutorials

• How to Publish Linked Data on the Web tutorial by Tom Heath, Michael Hausenblas, Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, Olaf Hartig, from ISWC2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• The Web, one huge database ... screen-cast by Michael Hausenblas (see also examples and slides).

Introductory Slide Sets

• Quick Linked Data Introduction, by Michael Hausenblas
• An Introduction to Linked Data, by Tom Heath, from the Semantic Web Austin Linked Data tutorials
• Tutorial on Linked Data - A Practical Introduction, by Michael Hausenblas
• 30 Minute Guide to RDF and Linked Data, by Ian Davis, from code4lib2009

Frequently Asked Questions

• Linked Data FAQ at linkeddata.org
• Linked Data FAQ (enterprise focus)

For an explanation of Linked Data terms, see the Linked Data Glossary.