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As the Semantic Web (sometimes called Web 3.0) emerges, the US government is pleased to be in the vanguard of this new technology space. To this end, Data.gov is hosting demonstrations and documents that will help familiarize Data.gov users with this new technology, and that will let citizens and developers work with the government in creating a new generation of "linked data" mash ups.

Data.gov now hosts a set of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents containing triples created by converting a number of the Data.gov datasets into this format, making over 6.4 billion triples of open government data available to the community. An index of all the RDF documents on Data.gov is here.

The URI scheme chosen is a very simple one for the time being, designed to allow users to easily explore and extend the data. A proposal is being developed with RPI, one of the Data.gov community leaders, for a new encoding of datasets converted from CSV (and other formats) to RDF. We're looking forward to a design discussion to determine the best scheme for persistent and dereferenceable government URI naming with the international community and the World Wide Web Consortium to promote international standards for persistent government data (and metadata) on the World Wide Web.

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The Web is Evolving

Posted on Thu, 2010-11-11 17:31 by George Thomas and Jim Hendler

The Web has fundamentally changed our society, becoming one of the most important technologies in modern times.  Despite its incredible success, however, the Web is still limited in many ways.  One of these is that when it comes to working with data, whether in a database, a spreadsheet on your computer, or even in a table on a Web page, you simply don’t get the sort of support from the Web you get from documents.  You cannot easily search for data, you cannot easily move data from one application to another, and you cannot easily understand the information that the dat

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