Linked data
![The above diagram shows which Linking Open Data datasets are connected, as of August 2014. This was produced by the
Linked Open Data Cloud project, which was started in 2007. Some sets may include copyrighted data which is freely available.[11]](/Images/godic/202501/24/LOD_Cloud_2014.svg5939.png")
In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried.