Beek

The success of the Web of Data (WOD) is based on the thorough understanding of, and agreement upon, the se- mantics of data and ontologies. But the Web of Data as a whole is complex, and inherently messy, contex- tualised, opinionated, in short: it is a market-place of ideas, rather than a database. Existing paradigms are in- appropriate for dealing with this new type of knowledge structures. The urgency of dealing with the non-standard charac- teristics of the Web of Data has been recognised, and separate initiatives try to tackle its individual manifes- tations, e.g.