At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. About Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development.
Regarding links: back about 12 years ago we built a software framework in the (then new) Java language named "Roku". Our ontology in Roku (Japanese for 'six') broke everything into one of six categories (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How).
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