What does openness mean when data cannot leave a restricted environment? This lightning talk discusses how linked data principles are being adapted within the National Security Research Center (NSRC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where more than eighty years of secrecy have made access control a defining feature of knowledge organization.
At the NSRC, security requirements function as design parameters for semantic modeling, metadata standardization, and relationship building. These efforts support access and interoperability in an environment where data cannot be published on the open web. Here, openness takes shape through deliberate choices about what can be connected, who can follow those connections, and under what conditions.
