★ Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data
★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context
source: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
Aim should always be 5 star
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On 17 Mar 2014, at 4:31 am, Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Observations: Bitcoin has its own protocol (1), the web has its own protocol (2). Bitcoin has URIs (3)? Linked Data has to do with URIs and being able to find other URIs, but also with applying the query language SPARQL.