Linked Data: Connecting Distributed Data across the Web

The workshop will focus on Linked Data and will feature Emily Nimsakont from the Nebraska Library Commission. Ralph LeVan from OCLC Research and Jared Bendis from Case Western Reserve
University. Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn’t previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More
specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."