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Together with SWC (Semantic Web Company) REEEP (the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership) has just released "Linked Open Data: The Essentials", a quick start guide for decision makers who need to quickly get up to speed with the Linked Open Data (LOD) concept and who want to make their organisation a part of this movement.

This new book answers many questions about what it means for an organisation’s strategy to open up datasets and what actually needs to be done at the technical level to make existing data available in machine-readable and standardised formats. REEEP’s clean energy portal (www.reegle.info) and NREL’s (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) Open Energy Information portal (en.openei.org) are two best practice examples that already draw content from many data sources – and freely provide data to others.

Linked Open Data: The Essentials provides answers to the following key questions:

• What do the terms Open Data, Open Government Data and Linked Open Data actually mean, and what are the differences between them?
• What do I need to take into account in developing a LOD strategy?
• What does my organisation need to do technically in order to open up and publish its datasets?
• How can I make sure the data is accessible and digestible for others?
• How can I add value to my own data sets by consuming LOD from others?
• What can be learned existing best practices?
• What are the key potentials of sharing and consuming open datasets?

The downloadable PDF Version is available for free at
http://www.reeep.org/linked-open-data-essentials or http://www.semantic-web.at/LOD-TheEssentials.pdf

Hardcover on Amazon
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3902796057/

Editor Contacts
Florian Bauer, REEEP
Martin Kaltenböck, SWC