Data is relationships

This is REALLY worth watching. We’re always looking for 'The Next Big Thing'. Many trends are just fads. But if we should pay attention to anyone, it’s Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

This talk at the TED Conference gives a great overview of the birth of the web as well as reintroducing one of his concepts called Linked Data. He believes that Linked Data is as important an idea as the invention of the World Wide Web itself. Berners-Lee suggests that data from governments, organisations and individuals should be opened-up so that others can share it and work with it.

He believes this transparency of ‘raw data’ will allow the relationships between data to grow increasingly ‘connected’ affecting every aspect of our lives, speeding up knowledge transfer and reducing the time needed to solves problems (such as the cure for cancer).