From the website:
The traditional approach of sharing data within silos seems to have reached its end. From governments and international organizations to local cities and institutions, there is a widespread effort of opening up and interlinking their data. Linked Data, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee in his design note regarding the Semantic Web architecture, refers to a set of best practices for publishing, sharing, and interlinking structured data on the Web.
Linked Open Data (LOD), a concept that has leapt onto the scene in the last years, is Linked Data distributed under an open license that allows its reuse for free. Linked Open Data becomes a key element to achieve interoperability and accessibility of data, harmonisation of metadata and multilinguality.
There are four remaining seminars in this series:
Webinar in French | 22nd January 2013 – 11:00am Rome time
Clarifiez le sens de vos données publiques grâce au Web de données
Christophe Guéret, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)Webinar in Chinese | 29th January 2013 – 02:00am Rome time
基于网络的研讨会 “题目：理解和利用关联数据 －－图情档博（LAM）作为关联数据的提供者和使用者”
Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State UniversityWebinar in Russian | 5th February 2013 – 11:00am Rome time
Введение в концепцию связанных открытых данных
Irina Radchenko, Centre of Semantic Technologies, Higher School of EconomicsWebinar in Arabic | 12th February 2013 – 11:00am Rome time
Ibrahim Elbadawi, UAE Federal eGovernment
Mark your agenda! New Free Webinars @ AIMS on Linked Open Data for registration and more details.