Spatial Representations and Spatial Data Infrastructures

The Linked Data paradigm has evolved as a powerful enabler for the transition of the current document-oriented Web into a Web of inter-linked Data and, ultimately, into the Semantic Web. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. It was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in his Web architecture note Linked Data and have become known as the Linked Data principles. These principles are:

• Use Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) as names for things.
• Use Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) URIs so that people can look up those names.
• When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL).
• Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more things.

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