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Overheard – Raw data now!



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Database, raw data, TED conference, Tim Berners-Lee
Raw data now! Raw data now! Raw data now!

Tim Berners-Lee, getting the crowd to chant at the 2009 TED conference

Founder of the web Tim Berners-Lee spoke of the next grassroots communication movement he wants to start: linked data. Much in the way his development of the web stemmed out of the frustrations of brilliant people working in silos, he is frustrated that the data of the world is shut apart in offline databases.

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