5-Star Data
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Open Linked Data Standards
| ★ | Make your stuff available on the web (whatever format) |
| ★★ | Make it available as structured data (e.g. Excel instead of image scan of a table) Editor's note: Excel is now more or less an open format, so this is not a great example! |
| ★★★ | Non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of Excel) |
| ★★★★ | Use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff. |
| ★★★★★ | Link your data to other people’s data to provide context. |