How do I make my raw scientific data useful to the

Question

I have a large set of raw structured datasets in CSV and HDF5 format. I would usually upload these to a web server as they are, but what steps are required to incorporate this data to the semantic web?

Answer 1

Tim Berners-Lee defined the 5 stars of Linked Open Data.

Assuming that your data is licensed under an open license, your data would have 3 stars currently.

To get 4 stars, you need to use

open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

This could mean, for example:

Use RDF (in the form of a serialization format of your choice) and define URIs for your entities so that you and other people can make statements about them. If you like, you could also offer a SPARQL endpoint so that other people can query your data on your server.

As a first and less complex step, you could start with publishing RDF metadata about your data, e.g., about its license, authors, general topic, creation date etc. There are many vocabularies you could use.