Music and the Web of Linked Data - ISMIR 2009 Tutorial

A brief glossary of terms. Note this glossary may also appears in the quick reference guide available as PDF.

Document (or information resource)

A Web resource that can be transmitted electronically e.g. your Web page a opposed to a non-information resource which cannot be sent over the wire.

Linked data

HTTP + URI + RDF

Linking Open Data (LOD)

A community project running since late 2006, publishing open data as linked data

N3

An extension to the RDF data model with an associated serialisation, from which RDF/Turtle is derived

Namespace

A Web location under which several resources are defined

Ontology (or vocabulary)

A namespace defining concepts and relationships in a particular domain

OWL (Web Ontology Language)

A set of constructs for defining web ontologies

RDF

a simple data model for publishing data on the Web

RDF/N-Triples

A very simple text RDF serialisation (writing one triple after the other)

RDF/Turtle

N-Triples with some syntactic sugar, a subset of N3, N3 minus the extenstions to RDF, our favorite RDF serialization

RDF/XML

An XML serialisation for the RDF data model, not very human readable or concise but very well supported

SPARQL

A query language and protocol for RDF data

Statement (or triple)

A (subject, property, object) tuple, e.g. ('this tutorial', 'is presented by', 'Kurt')

Thing (or non-information resource)

A resource that can be named by a URI but which cannot be transmitted electronically. Human beings, abstract concepts, etc. are non-information resources

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier, a standard for identifying and locating resources on the internet