Linked Open Data: Are we Drowning in Information and Starving for Know-How?

Today’s most popular means for publishing semantic information on the web is the paradigm of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the technologies behind the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The amount of openly available RDF data is drastically increasing. However, even when considering ontological information such as RDF Schema, LOD is only little more than a collection of pieces of information. In this paper, we critically review the current situation of LOD and have a bold look into the possible future of Linked Open KnowHow. While today’s LOD is mostly on representing factual information (which can also be called know-that) we also consider the possibility of representing procedural information (know-how) in the future version of LOD. In our vision, by considering procedural information in the same way as factual information, automatic knowledge acquisition and learning how and to what purpose to use this knowledge can be tightly integrated.