Publishing Linked Open Data in Tight Economic Times

By Bernadette Hyland Back in April 2011, I wrote about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to publish facilities data that was locked up in a proprietary databases or published via Web portal such as the Facilities Registry System.  US EPA, like many agencies, provides a tremendous amount of content as human readable HTML pages via their .gov website.  However, the information provided is often: hard to find; difficult to navigate; and one cannot get hold of the raw data Our experience has shown that publishing Linked...

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