Semantic Web for Dummies

20080220a.jpg I referenced this on the SIOC-Dev mailing list recently, and when I pasted it on the DataPortability.org steering group chat this morning (in parallel with our first phone conference), Drummond Reed suggested I blog it. It’s originally from MIT’s Stefan Marti:

XML customised tags, like:
<dog>Nena</dog>
+ RDF relations, in triples, like:
(Nena) (is_dog_of) (Kimiko/Stefan)
+ Ontologies / hierarchies of concepts, like:
mammal -> canine -> Cotton de Tulear -> Nena
+ Inference rules like:
If (person) (owns) (dog), then (person) (cares_for) (dog)
= Semantic Web!

(Picture by Duncan Hull.)

4 Responses to “Semantic Web for Dummies”


  1. 1 Marie Boran

    I need this book!

  2. 2 Duncan Hull

    Hello John, I think you might have got the picture in your post from Semantic Web for Dummies which is available under a creative commons but requires Attribution…Thanks.

  3. 3 Cloud

    Thanks Duncan, great image, link added.

  4. 4 Duncan Hull

    Thanks John, so *who* is going to write the “semantic web for dummies” book and when will it finally be published :)

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