Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations.
mashpoint is a framework that allows data rich apps to be connected and browsed in a new way. It allows selections of data from one app to be inputed in other apps, improving discovery of information on a more granular level.
The BBC’s website for the 2010 World Cup was notable for the raw amount of rich information that it contained. Every player on every team in every group had their own web page, and the ease with which you could navigate from one piece of content to the next was remarkable. Within the Semantic Web community, the website was notable for one more reason: it was made possible by the BBC’s embrace of Semantic Web technologies.. Topic: Information Management
Linked data refers to RDF and related technologies for enabling data to be published in a decentralized fashion on the Web. With linked data, each piece of information can be expressed in terms of, and with relations to, arbitrary other information produced by others.
By letting information be richly contextualized, Linked Data forms the core technology underlying Semantic Web applications and services.