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Quoted from linkeddata.org:
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as “a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.”
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It is used for describing graph-like ( nodes and vertices ) relationships between pieces of information by using RDF Triples.
An RDF triple contains three components:
- the subject, which is an RDF URI reference or a blank node. - the predicate, which is an RDF URI reference. - the object, which is an RDF URI reference, a literal or a blank node.
It is important to distinguish the RDF/XML format from the abstract RDF model itself. Although the RDF/XML format is still in use, other RDF serializations are now preferred by many RDF users, both because they are more human-friendly,[32] and because some RDF graphs are not representable in RDF/XML due to restrictions on the syntax of XML QNames.
From RDF definition on wikipedia
ODM's CKAN instance exposes this functionality thanks to the great job done by the contributors of https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-dcat, a CKAN extension for exposing data in RDF, and many more things.