Democratizing Linked Data - A picture is worth a thousand words with embedded linked metadata.

Pixel images are an evergreen file format in daily communication channels amongst dynamic interdisciplinary teams in real estate projects. These images are often rendered from structured data sources, typically residing in silos, scattered amongst various stakeholders. As the volume of structured data residing in silos is increasing, tracing these data sources is becoming a major challenge in practice. Building lifecycles usually span over multiple decades, involving a multitude of real estate projects with varying stakeholders with individualized data workflows and data structures, changing in-between projects. In this context, pixel images surprisingly turned out to have the highest long time data "survival" rate in comparison to other formats. Consequently, linked metadata embedded in pixel images has proven to be very effective for tracing original structured data sources over long time periods with dynamic interdisciplinary teams structures. Based on these real-world learnings, a user interaction paradigms for applications consuming linked metadata in pixel images has been developed, making linked data more visible to a broader audience on the world wide web, ultimately potentially increasing the overall adoption of linked data itself.