In the field of oceanographic data management, there is a long history of using controlled vocabularies to define metadata fields and describe data channels in files. These controlled vocabularies were originally published in book form, but are now available as Linked Data resources on the Semantic Web. By ensuring the controlled vocabularies are published in a manner conforming to best practices, their uptake has been wide. This has led to the inception of the Linked Ocean Data concept as a micro-cloud of Linked Data resources. The creation of the Linked Ocean Data cloud and some of the applications of developing this concept are described in this chapter. Also discussed are some emerging methods of using Linked Data techniques to add impact to datasets, allowing data managers and data scientists to tell new stories around their data encouraging new funding opportunities.