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LOD is becoming increasingly important in the fields of state-of-the-art information and data management. It is already being used by many wellknown organisations, products and services to create portals, platforms, internet-based services and applications. LOD is domain-independent and penetrates various areas and domains, thus proving its advantage over traditional data management. For example, the project LOD2 [4] Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data, which is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, develops powerful LOD mechanisms and tools based on three real use cases: OGD, linked enterprise data and LOD for media and publishers. For further reading on linked open (government) data, please refer to the Government Linked Data (GLD) W3C working group [5]. The following chapters discuss the benefits of LOD, as well as basic LOD consuming and publishing principles for creating powerful and innovative services for knowledge management, decision making and general data management. The best practice examples reegle.info [6] and OpenEI [7] show how LOD can have a great impact on their respective target groups. Another popular example of applied OGD is legislation.gov.uk.
Links [1] Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tim_Berners-Lee [2] 5 Stars Model on Open Government Data by Michael Hausenblas: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/ star-scheme-by-example [3] Michael Hausenblas: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/ Michael_Hausenblas [4] LOD2 – Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data: http://www.lod2.eu [5] GLD W3C Working Group: http:// www.w3.org/2011/gld/charter [6] Clean energy info portal reegle. info: http://www.reegle.info [7] Open Energy Info (OpenEI): http://en.openei.org Further reading ll Linked Data, Wikipedia: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data ll Linked Data – Connect Distributed Data Across the Web: http://linkeddata.org ll Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, Heath and Bizer: http://linkeddatabook.com ll Linking Government Data, David Wood (Editor), Springer; 2011 edition (November 12, 2011), ISBN10: 146141766X, ISBN-13:9781461417668 ll W3C Linking Open Data Community Project: http://bit.ly/fBiPxG