Building enterprise ready applications using linked open data

Abstract

Exploiting open data in the web community is an established movement that is growing these recent years. Government public data is probably the most common and visible part of the later phenomena. What about companies and business data? Even if the kickoff was slow, forward-thinking companies and businesses are embracing semantic technologies to manage their corporate information. The availability of various sources, be they internal or external, the maturity of semantic standards and frameworks, the emergence of big data technologies for managing huge volumes of data have fostered the companies to migrate their internal information systems from traditional silos of corporate data into semantic business data hubs. In other words, the shift from conventional enterprise information management into Linked Opened Data compliant paradigm is a strong trend in enterprise roadmaps. This chapter discusses a set of guidelines and best practices that eases this migration within the context of a corporate application.