What the Adoption of schema.org Tells About Linked Open Data
Schema.org is a common data markup schema, pushed by large search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. To date, a few hundred thousand [...]
Light at the End of the Tunnel – Schema.org
A longstanding goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to get webmasters to make structured data directly available on the web. While there have been [...]
Adoption of Linked Data Best Practices in Different Topical Domains
The central idea of Linked Data is that data publishers support applications in discovering and integrating data by complying to a set of best practices [...]
Semantic Web Death Match 2011: Industry vs. Academia vs. Standards
The past couple of years have been an "interesting time" for the Semantic Web - with both the positive and negative aspects that that implies. [...]
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative: Using Schema.org to describe open educational resources
This paper discusses the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), an international project that aims to facilitate the discovery of educational resources through the use of [...]
MarkLogic Semantics: Under the Hood
This slide presentation starts with the basics of triples and how to query RDF data using SPARQL (with a focus on SPARQL support in MarkLogic). [...]
Building Semantic Web CRUD Operations Using PHP
This article discusses how a shift in Web development towards Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has shifted the model commonly used for connecting websites to databases (and [...]
Access Control for HTTP Operations on Linked Data
Access control is a recognized open issue when interacting with RDF using HTTP methods. In literature, authentication and authorization mechanisms either introduce undesired complexity such [...]
Why Use XML Schemas?
This tutorial presents the case for using XML Schemas: They are more powerful than DTD; Support Data Types; Use XML Syntax; Secure Data Communication; are [...]
XML Syntax for RDF
This tutorial explains the use of XML syntax in RDF descriptions of resources. It discusses the use of URIs and Literals as property values in [...]