The terminology is still a bit in a flux: The practise is usually called just <i>Linked Data</i>, and it builds on the <i>Semantic Web</i> technologies. The goal is a <i>Web of Data</i> that interlinks with the current <i>Web</i> (of documents). The W3C community project for publishers bootstrapping this web is called <i>Linking Open Data</i>.<p>Sound bite: <i>Linked Data is the Semantic Web done right, and the Web done right.</i> —Tim Berners-Lee<p>Recent academic review article: <a href="http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-linked-data.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-li...</a><p>My Linked Data related projects: <a href="http://irc.sioc-project.org/" rel="nofollow">http://irc.sioc-project.org/</a> (irc logging) <a href="http://smob.sioc-project.org/" rel="nofollow">http://smob.sioc-project.org/</a> (microblogging), <a href="http://fenfire.org/" rel="nofollow">http://fenfire.org/</a> (Linked Data browser/editor GUI) <a href="http://github.com/tuukka/arc2-starter-pack" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/tuukka/arc2-starter-pack</a> (app template)