Linked Open Data – The Essentials (A Quick Start Guide on LOD)

Florian Bauer | Reegle | January 20, 2012

Linked Open Data (LOD) is a growing trend amongst governments and civil society organisations who understand that the internet now makes the entire storehouse of human knowledge available to anyone, anywhere, through access via computer or mobile device. To reflect this new reality, many organisations are taking their existing data sets – many of which are in principle in the public domain already – and making them freely available for use and re-use by anyone.

REEEP‘s clean energy info portal reegle is one of the main energy portals. The ability to perform work, mainly kinetic, potential, thermal energy, but also in forms of gravitational, sound, elastic and electromagnetic energy. portals already using this technology, but we need more … more organisations opening up their datasets and understanding the benefits of doing this...