IOS Press Linked Data, Big Data, and the 4th Paradigm Editorial

led to a realignment of the Semantic Web vision and the realization that data is not merely a way to evaluate our theoretical considerations, but a key research en-abler in its own right that inspires novel theoretical and foundational research questions. Since then, Linked Data is growing rapidly and is altering research, gov-ernments, and industry. Simply put, Linked Data takes the World Wide Web’s ideas of global identifiers and links and applies them to (raw) data, not just docu-ments. Moreover, and regularly highlighted by Tim Berners-Lee, Anybody can say Anything about Any topic (AAA)1 [1], which leads to a multi-thematic, multi-perspective, and multi-medial global data graph. More recently, Big Data has made its appearance in the shared mindset of researchers, practitioners, an