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Notes about Linked open data(Knowledge Graph)

Shaon Shaonty
ITNEXT
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5 min readJan 18, 2021

Everything’s connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

— Michelle Williams

To begin with, at least we should know the definition of linked data. Not my own definition, Wikipedia says —

In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is structured data that is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries.

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Let’s start with a scenario. Suppose we create an application for answering questions. We ask questions and it will reply answer. No, I am not gonna talk about NLP, ML but a simple one contains if-else condition with a database(NoSQL/SQL don’t think much about it now). Every time you ask questions and the application search in the database, if the answer is found in our database then it replies otherwise will show in the console, “Sorry I don’t know that one.”. We write and run two replicas on your computer and my computer.
In this case, I store a certain number of questions and answer in my database and you store some data for yours one. Now, Think, if your dataset, my dataset were openly published and used the same format for structuring information, then this application has more dataset to answer. Analyzing large…

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Written by Shaon Shaonty

Data Scientist | Software Engineer | Computer Science Graduate @TU Dresden

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