Semantic web and linked data are a form of agile development
I am working on a book on building intelligent systems in JavaScript (1) and I just wrote part of the introduction to the section on semantic web technologies: In order to understand and process data we must understand the context in which it was created and used. We looked at document oriented data storage in the last chapter. To a large degree documents are an easier source of knowledge to use because they contain some of their own context, especially if they use a specific data schema. In general data items are smaller than documents and some external context is required to make sense of different data sources. The semantic web and linked data technologies provide a way to specify a context for understanding what is in data sources and the associations between data in different sources. The thing that I like best about semantic web technologies is the support for exploiting data that was originally developed by small teams for specific projects. I view the process as a bottom up