Linked Data

Connect your data across every system.

Your data is more valuable when it connects. But most of it still sits in separate tools that don’t talk to each other. Linked Data is a software-neutral way to connect information across systems, departments, and organizations so it can be shared and reused where needed.

Linked Data: a means, not a goal

Linked Data can sound like a technical rabbit hole, and plenty of vendors treat it like one. We don’t. Linked Data is a means, not a goal. What matters is the result: frictionless collaboration, information flowing between applications, and freedom from a single system. We keep the standards under the hood and make sure you see the benefits.

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What is it?

Open standards that link your data

Linked Data is an open, software-neutral set of standards for describing and connecting information, maintained by the W3C, the body that governs the web. It works the way the internet does: every piece of data gets its own web address, so items can link to one another and form one connected web of meaning rather than isolated tables. Built on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model and languages like OWL, SKOS, SPARQL, and SHACL, it lets you publish, query, and validate information across tools and organizations. Because it is based on open standards, your data stays distributable, shareable, and yours.

What Linked Data changes for you

  • Break down the silos. When your tools, teams, and partners draw on the same connected data, collaboration stops becoming a battle of exports, copies, and mismatched spreadsheets.
  • No vendor lock-in. Because your information lives in open standards rather than in a single application, you can choose your tools freely, and your data outlives any system you use today.
  • Share across the value chain. Exchange information cleanly with clients, contractors, and suppliers in a machine-readable format everyone can use, without rekeying it at every handover.
How we help

Ten years of putting Linked Data to work

Expertise that makes data flow

We don’t just apply the standards. We help write them. Our experts co-authored NEN 2660 and NEN-EN 17632 (SML), the standards that connect the built environment to Linked Data. That expertise goes into your project: we design information models, then publish, query, transform, and validate your data using open standards such as RDF, SPARQL, and SHACL.

Tools that do the heavy lifting

We put practical tools in your hands so you work with results, not raw standards. View connected data in a form people can read, transform existing sources into open formats, and shape how information is presented with reusable stylesheets. You get the benefit of Linked Data without wrestling with the syntax yourself.

Training that makes you independent

We have been a front-runner in Linked Data for over ten years, and we love sharing what we’ve learned. Our trainers teach your people to apply Linked Data methods and tools themselves, so the expertise becomes yours and stays yours.

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Let’s connect your data together

Curious what Linked Data could do for you? You don’t need to become an expert in the standards. Tell us what you’re trying to connect or share, and we’ll show you what’s possible. Start a conversation with Wouter Lubbers or call us today at +31 (0)85 13 00 541.