In addition to making flatfiles available to download on the Web, and providing applications that enable programmatic access to backend databases through the Web, imagine using the Web itself as a database: a massively distributed, decentralized database. This is what Linked Data is about – putting data in the Web. As part of our ongoing collaboration to democratize open government data with Data.gov, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are now publishing Clinical Quality Linked Data on Health.data.gov, beginning with Hospital Compare.