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Saturday, August 04, 2012

5 Stars Open Data

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and Linked Data initiator, suggested a 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data. Here, we give examples for each step of the stars and explain costs and benefits that come along with it.


http://5stardata.info/






make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license1example ...
★★make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)2example ...
★★★use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)3example ...
★★★★use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff4example ...
★★★★★link your data to other data to provide context5

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