Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing structured data on the web. These principles have been coined by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] in the design issue note [Linked Data](https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData). The principles are: 1. Use URIs as names for things 2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. 3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information. 4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things. Linked Data is to spreadsheets and databases what the Web of hypertext documents is to word processor files. Two resources defined by their URI and linked in this fashion can be drawn from different data sets on the web, allowing data in one data source to be linked to that in another, thereby creating a Web of Data. Linked Data relies on documents containing data in [[RDF]] format. The most visible example of adoption and application of the Linked Data principles has been the [Linking Open Data project](http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData) and visualized in the [LOD Cloud diagram](http://lod-cloud.net/). Examples include - [[GeoNames]] - [[Wikidata]] - DBpedia - OpenCitations > [!Tip]- Additional Resources > - [Linked Data - The Story so Far](http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf) | Bizer, Heath, Berners-Lee, IJSWIS, 2009. > - [LinkedData](https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData) | W3C Wiki