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The Semantic Web is a topic that frequently confuses and is often dismissed as a technology that is too hard to understand. On this techcast, Brian Sletten describes how the semantic web helps to describe relationships between interconnected data, and how it is already being used, even without our knowledge.
Brian Sletten's articles on Semantic Web, REST, and more:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/roa-rest-of-rest
http://www.infoq.com/articles/roa-resource-metadata
Linked data project:
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
http://linkeddata.org/
http://www.data.gov/
http://data.gov.uk/
http://freebase.com
http://dbpedia.org
Best Buy - blog about using RDFa:
http://jay.beweep.com/index.php/category/rdfa/
Some open source tools:
http://jena.sourceforge.net
http://mulgara.org
http://openrdf.org
http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/
SPARQL tutorial:
http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ/Tutorial/
A couple of good SemWeb Twitter lists:
https://twitter.com/bblfish/semweb
https://twitter.com/puredanger/semanticweb
Brian Sletten twitters as @bsletten, and works for Riot Games, and is part of the League of Legends team.

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