What is this page?

This page provides a structured representation (serialized as HTML+RDFa) of the description of a given Web-accessible resource, which resource is indicated (or denoted) by the Data Source hyperlink.

The data represented here is structured as Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) graphs, and it may may be retrieved in a variety of other serialization formats via hyperlinks (URLs). Available serialization formats currently include CSV, HTML+Microdata, (X)HTML+RDFa, N-Triples, Turtle, N3, RDF/JSON, JSON-LD, RDF/XML, Atom, and CXML.

Why is this page important?

This page and its neighbors provide starting points for SPARQL queries over HTTP, or SQL queries via ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, and XMLA connections, with results spanning the entire Web.

A single link from this page can be the starting point for powerful Web traversal, en route to discovery and exploitation of insights, using existing tools such as spreadsheets, business intelligence and analytics packages, basic report writers, presentation generators, project management packages, and many more.

How can I discover more structured data like this?

A variety of discovery pointers are available to users and user agents (software programs) that include:

<link /> relations embedded within the <head /> section of each description page.
"Link:" response headers included as part of HTTP response metadata.

Is this related to the Linked Data meme?

Every link on this page resolves to a description-oriented document that's human and/or machine comprehensible.

This means that any and every Web document can be turned into a structured data container, which is then available for SPARQL and SQL queries via HTTP or "native" protocols.

Can I expose my own Web resources this way?

Yes! Simply include entries, based on the example below, in the <head/> section of your (X)HTML page, whether static or dynamically generated:


       <link rel="alternate"
 
         title="My Data in RDF Linked Data form"

         type="<mime type>"

         href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<URL-of-a-Web-Page>"

       />

For example, if your original page were at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
you could provide access to an EAV-based description serialized as Turtle/N3, by including a <head/> entry like this:


       <link
 
         rel="alternate"

         title="Linked data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - described as RDF (Turtle/N3 format)"
 
         type="text/n3"

         href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data"
 
       />

Additional information

URIBurner.com - a live service that produces pages like this
OpenLink Data Explorer (ODE) - a browser plug-in that enables you to browse and bookmark Linked Data pages via additions to the browser menus, both main and contextual
- ODE usage examples

clerk	Clerk#3
comment	furious multipliers to thrash ironically according the depths ?cl
has_customer	http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/customer/1#this
order_of	http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/lineitem/2628/1#this http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/lineitem/2628/2#this
orderdate	1998-02-12 (xsd:date) 1998-02-12 (xsd:date)
orderkey	2628 (xsd:integer)
orderpriority	2-HIGH
orderstatus	O
ordertotalprice	109923.98 (xsd:double)
shippriority	0 (xsd:integer)
type	http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/tpch#order

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OpenLink Virtuoso version 06.03.3131, on Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu), Single Edition

customer_of	http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/customer/1#this
has_order	http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/lineitem/2628/1#this http://demo.openlinksw.com/tpch/lineitem/2628/2#this