Linking Things on the Web
A Pragmatic Examination of Linked Data
Linked Data is a bit of a buzzword at the moment in the cultural heritage sector. At first glance, the principles of Linked Data seem simple enough. However web developers, designers and architects who attempt to put these ideas into practice soon find themselves not only learning a set of new technologies, but cast adrift in debates about web architecture, the semantic web, artificial intelligence and the nature of identity. In this talk I will briefly outline some of these historical debates, and attempt to characterize some pragmatic ways of realizing the goals of Linked Data with examples from the Web we have today.
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Ed is a researcher and software developer working at the intersection of information technology and memory studies. His work is informed by a sociotechnical approach which emphasizes the role that communities of practice play in the development of infrastructure for libraries and archives, with a particular focus on web archives and social media. He has worked for the last two decades in academia, government and business. Prior to joining MITH Ed helped build the Repository Development Center (RDC) at the Library of Congress. There he led the design and implementation of the NEH funded National Digital Newspaper Program’s web application Chronicling America. Ed designed digital curation services for social media archiving and image quality analysis. He also served as a member of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Group where he helped standardize SKOS, and implemented the initial version of LC’s Linked Data service.
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