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.
A. Ankolekar, M. Krötzsch, T. Tran, and D. Vrandecic. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 825--834. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)
A. Ankolekar, M. Krötzsch, T. Tran, and D. Vrandecic. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 825--834. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)