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Berners-Lee Pushes Linked Data In MIT Course

Posted by timothy on from the click-here-for-knowledge dept.

ErMKutz writes "WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee is championing linked data — the idea of assigning web addresses to individual pieces of data to enable more intelligent information searches — much like he did now-ubiquitous Internet standards such as HTML and HTTP. But the ethic hasn't quite taken off yet, so he and a group of Boston tech and entrepreneurial all-stars are launching an MIT class to teach students linked data mechanics and fast-track the technology to market. They're combining engineering and entrepreneurial education in the hopes of launching viable linked data businesses or open source code at the conclusion of the course." I hope this shows up on OpenCourseWare.

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  1. Dear Mr. Berners-Lee, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please bring back the BLINK tag.

    1. Re:Dear Mr. Berners-Lee, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Holy cow, even when you guys invent both the standards you still can't use the one that everyone else uses?

  2. Linked Data is a mess by slasho81 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The concept of linking huge amount of publicly accessible data is obviously worthwhile. The problem with the Linked Data movement is the current implementation. It is a total mess. The insistent attempts to pre-standardize open data have created a horrible bureaucratic monster. RDF, RDFS, RDFa, N3, RIF, SWRL, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, and a few others I forgot on top of XML. Every time you encounter a field with so many acronyms you know something horribly wrong is being developed. The consultants and enterprise "experts" will have a field day with this.

  3. Grumble. by goodmanj · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a college professor, I believe that the primary goal of a class should not be to advance your personal agenda. Feel free to share your opinions with your students, but your primary purpose is to inform and inspire, not to brainwash.

    I'm clearly in the minority on this one.