Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition

Data.Gov Summary

The example mashup using data.gov shown here really represents only the tip of the iceberg of what has been done, and continues to be done, with open government data sets. A development community has generated a large number of applications using the RDF data from the United Kingdom, and in the United States researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), have used this approach to produce a wide variety of applications using government data, several of which are highlighted on the official US data.gov page (See http://data.gov/semantic). The provisioning of government data as RDF makes it easy to mix and match data sets, producing visualizations, applications and reports that mashup information from multiple data sets ...