https://www.kbresearch.com/concept-files/information-database1.png

by using globally unique identifiers (URIs) to identify "things"

formatted in a standard model

for structured data (RDF)

"Mak Saito"

is understood as:

http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234

"NSF Award # 1233261"

is understood as:

http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261

http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/award/isPrincipalInvestigatorOf

subject

predicate

object

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/person/fullName>

      object:  "Mak Saito"^^xsd:string

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/department/MCG>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/department/hasEmployee>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/award/isPrincipalInvestigatorOf>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261>

2

2

2

Software API Impl: 6

Software Libraries: 3

Linked Data Impls: 3

Linked Data Schemas: 1

1

"I have a pitch meeting in a week. Can you build me a website that has all the articles, video, images related to my last three grants?"

What are the data use cases we may encounter?

"Discovery Channel called, they want all the video we have on whale activity near Georges Bank where Michael Moore's whale monitoring instrumentation was used."

“Just adding structured data, for example, immediately increased traffic to our recipes from search engines by 52 percent.” (p.44)

They spent “a huge sum to retroactively structure the data.” Structured data problems prohibit the Times from automating the sale of photos and keep Times stories from doing as well in search rankings as they should. (p. 41)