20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 16:23.)
















You might also be interested to see Rufus Pollock’s original post on this on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog [1] - which Tim Berners Lee cites as the origin of the “Raw Data Now” meme [2].
[1] http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/#(34)