The Knowledge Dynasty is pleased to announce the addition of the two new, closely related categories of Linked Data and Artificial Intelligence. In computing, Linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) describes a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF, and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried. Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), coined the term in a design note about the Semantic Web project.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the name of the academic field of study which studies how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behaviour. Major AI researchers and textbooks define this field as “the study and design of intelligent agents,” in which an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximizes its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as “the science of engineering of making intelligent machines.”