Try the Semantic Web for yourself! [Quickstart guide]

[rogueleaderr]

http://rogueleaderr.tumblr.com/post/21867170349/try-the-semantic-web-for-yourself-quickstart-guide

[mark_l_watson]

I have free PDFs of the Lisp and Java versions of my semantic web book at http://markwatson.com/opencontent/ The Java version uses both AllegroGraph and Sesame. I provide a wrapper for Sesame adding geolocation queries and text search (I embed Sesame, Lucene, and DerbyDB). Fun to hack on if you are so inclined. The code is on github.

[mark_l_watson → mark_l_watson]

BTW, Alex Ott kindly sent me some code improvements to the Clojure wrapper in my book. If you don't mind using a commercial product (with a free version that works with 50 million RDF triples) then use my Common Lisp edition and code that uses the AllegroGraph product - a very nice hacking experience.

[rogueleaderr → mark_l_watson]

Thanks for posting the link! I'll check that out...

[moubarak]

An interesting post would be on the state of the semantic web today. A lot of people still claim it's not all that.

[rogueleaderr → moubarak]

I will try to do that if I have time. My view in a nutshell...it's not all that YET, but it is FINALLY about to take off in a big way. (Yes, for real this time.)