Understands that QNames define shorthand prefixes for long URIs.
A Quick Tutorial on the Turtle RDF Serialization
This blog post covers the use of Turtle, which the author describes as "one of the more humane RDF serializations". Turtle is simple to understand, [...]
prefix.cc: Namespace Lookup for RDF Developers
The intention of this service is to simplify a common task in the work of RDF developers: remembering and looking up URI prefixes. One can [...]
Linked Data Basics for Techies
This guide is intended to be a crash course for a techie/programmer who needs to learn the basics ASAP. It is not intended as an [...]
An Uber-comparison of RDFa, Microdata and Microformats
This blog post discusses issues related to technical compatibility issues between the RDFa and Microdata formats. It provides an easy-to-read list of similarities and differences [...]
XQuery/SPARQL Tutorial
This page shows how to access a SPARQL endpoint using an interface provided by Talis. Potentially more valuable, it also provides several dozen example queries, [...]
Multi-Agent and Semantic Web Systems: RDF Models
This slide presentation of lecture material was used as part of a course given at The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. This lecture discusses [...]
Namespaces and Application Profiles
These slides are lectures notes from a unit of the course, "Organization of Information and Resources" which was taught at the University of Washington. The [...]
Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives
The SCHEMAS Registry aims at providing a selected and annotated overview of metadata vocabularies and their use in application environments. Based on harvested metadata in [...]
Semantic Web Tutorial 9/14: RDF Schema and OWL 1/4
Video tutorial describing the role of vocabularies in Semantic Web development, particularly the reuse of existing vocabularies. How to access predefined classes and properties through [...]
How to Build Linked Data APIs with JSON LD and Hydra
Discussion of the challenges facing Web developers in the proper design and implementation of Web APIs. Based on a simple Web API, this workshop use [...]