The potential for linked data is enormous. (Foto: flickr.com/Steve Jurvetson)
Information in the Internet is ephemeral; links often don't work after several years. Computer scientists from Innsbruck are now working on a solution to that problem for linked data. The European Commission funds that project. Anyone who has ever tried to reach a several years old Internet link knows: It likely will not work and the information can only be found via a different URL or not at all; data on the Internet is ephemeral. So-called "linked data" intensifies that problem: Data, not only websites, can be reached and linked via their own URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers). Linked data enables users and applications to link and evaluate data that previously wasn't connected and thus to interpret new data connections. To preserve access to linked data, the EU Commission funds the project "PRELIDA" (Preserving Linked Data).
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