Facilitating access to the web of data: A guide for librarians

摘要

Online data is a rapidly burgeoning area, and Facilitating access to the web of data neatly fills a niche for librarians with a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who are looking for an introduction to this area. This book offers a good introduction to accessing online data, and ultimately the library's future role in facilitating online data use. David Stuart paints the broader picture of the semantic web, from early data published on the web to a projected semantic web 3.0. He considers methods of publication of data online, semantic markup of data and introduces application programming interfaces (APIs) as facilitation tools for mashups of large chunks of data.