Happy Birthday, Web of Documents. Now bring on the Web of Data!
Image via Wikipedia Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee prepared the CERN memo that built upon existing principles such as hypertext and — eighteen months later — gave birth to the World Wide Web. This Web of Documents has exceeded most people’s wildest expectations since reaching mainstream awareness on the back of graphical tools such as the...
Linked Data and the Enterprise: a viable two-way street
In a pair of blog posts yesterday, Andreas Blumauer of Austria’s Semantic Web Company touched on an area that has been absorbing my attention recently, and raised some questions worth exploring here. I am travelling to San Diego next week to speak about the importance of evolving Enterprise attitudes to data. Borrowing some nice turns...