Re: Challenge: Explain Linked Data

The first one, by ‘soilandreyes’, is a masterpiece. May I re-use it (with acknowledgements, of course)?

Pat Hayes

> On Apr 19, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> 
> Classic ELI5:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/semanticweb/comments/1gbuvp/explain_linked_data_like_im_five/
> 
> Some of those answers are from my students (interestingly enough
> studying business IT).
> 
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i
> 
> On 2017-04-19 23:06, Phil Archer wrote:
>> Oh that old chestnut...
>> 
>> http://philarcher.org/diary/2014/canyouexplainlinkeddata/
>> 
>> a short blog post that describes the provenance of this tweet
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/philarcher1/status/540579539915907072
>> 
>> "Linked Data uses the concepts and technologies of the Web to describe
>> the world."
>> 
>> I haven't checked if it only uses the 100 most used words though.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> On 19/04/2017 21:35, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>>> Can you explain Linked Data using only the ten hundred most used words?
>>> 
>>> http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
>>> 
>>> Reply to this email with your explanation :)
>>> 
>>> -Sarven
>>> http://csarven.ca/#i
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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