Getting started

This is a place for putting pointers to useful tutorials and resources for getting started with Semantic Web technologies. The intention is to make this a useful starting point for people who are completely new to semantic technologies. Resources on more specific topics should appear on the respective pages.

Help is needed to make this a useful page for beginners. Please contribute.

General reading

• The first General Public Scientific Article (Tim Berners-Lee et al., Scientific American 2001)
• Semantic Web in Action (Scientific American 2007)
• Project10X (Semantic Wave Report)
• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [4]

Books

• Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, CRCPress, 2009, ISBN 142009050X.
• Amazon query "Semantic Web"
• Programming the Semantic Web

Tutorials

• W3C Tutorials List
• Getting data from the Semantic Web

Videos

	Date	Speaker	Location
Intelligence in Wikipedia	11 November 2008	Daniel S. Weld	Google TechTalks
Making The Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User	26 June 2008	Abraham Bernstein	Google TechTalks
Supporting Casual Data-Centric Interaction on the Web	4 June 2008	David Huynh	Google TechTalks
All The Information In The World, The Way You Want	23 May 2008	Mark Birbeck	Google TechTalks
A Basic Introduction to RDFa	7 January 2008	Manu Sporny	Digital Bazaar
A Short Introduction to the Semantic Web	25 December 2007	Manu Sporny	Digital Bazaar
Microformats, The What, Where, Why and How	31 October 2007	Mark Meeker	Orbitz TechTalk
Information R-evolution	12 October 2007	Michael Wesch	Mediatedcultures.net
Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web	9 October 2007	Peter F. Patel-Schneider	Google TechTalks
The Semantic Desktop, The Intimate Supplement to Memory	28 September 2007	Andreas Dengel	Google TechTalks
Generating and Querying Semantic Metadata and Ontologies	21 June 2007	Rudi Studer	Google TechTalks
Semantic Web (video)	25 May 2007	Eyal Oren Sebastian Kruk Stefan Decker	Google TechTalks
Everything is Miscellaneous	10 May 2007	David Weinberger	Google TechTalks
The Machine is Us-ing Us	8 March 2007	Michael Wesch	Mediatedcultures.net
Extending faceted navigation for RDF data (video)	5 November 2006	Eyal Oren	ISWC06
Introduction to the Semantic Web	3 June 2006	Hugo Mills	Hampshire Linux User Group
Computers versus Common Sense	30 May 2006	Douglas Lenat	Google TechTalks
RDF, Connecting Software and People	14 March 2006	Henry Story	Sun Microsystems
The Future of the Web	14 March 2006	Tim Berners-Lee	Oxford Internet Institute Seminars 2006
The Semantic Web (video)	29 September 2004	Tim Berners-Lee	Kresge Auditorium, MIT
Documents, Data, and People, World Wide Webs	29 September 2002	Tim Berners-Lee	Computer History Museum