Getting into the Semantic Web

From GetSemantic

Contents 1 Rough brainstorm 2 RDF 2.1 Validation 3 Closed World Machine (cwm) 4 Places to hangout

[edit] Rough brainstorm

Once you see the point of the Semantic Web, it can be a bit difficult to figure out where to go next. This page should be a guide on how to get into it, specifically showing how it can solve the sort of problems and use cases of individual hackers. It's not so much about implementation as it is on how to explore the power and utility of the Semantic Web - a whistlestop tour of why the SemWeb is cool.

• Understand triples
• Syntaxes
  • Conversion
• Validation
• Linking data together
• Cwm
• Reasoning
• Schema/Ontology
• Hangouts

[edit] RDF

RDF comes in different syntaxes. They are useful for different things:

• RDF/XML is the canonical syntax, and the one we generally use on the Internet most often.
• Notation3 is an easy-to-read syntax that is great for writing by hand

[edit] Validation

The W3C host a RDF Validator which you can use to validate your RDF/XML. It returns a tabluar interface to the underlying triples in your data.

[edit] Closed World Machine (cwm)

Closed World Machine (or 'cwm' for short) is an open source, command-line Python tool written by Tim Berners-Lee and

[edit] Places to hangout

• On IRC: irc.freenode.net #swig, #swhack and #GetSemantic
• Mailing lists
• PlanetRDF