Slides for my talk at the Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup on our new book entitled Linked Data. The book is currently available under the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) at http://www.manning.com/dwood/.

2. Our Rapidly Changing
Internet
35 hours of video
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51% of Internet traffic
is non-human
>2.3 billon Internet users,
>1 billion in Asia

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17. David Wood has co-founded several Open Source Software
projects related to the Semantic Web, including Persistent
URLs, Mulgara and the Callimachus Project. He is co-chair of
the W3C’s RDF Working Group.
Marsha Zaidman is Associate Professor Emerita of
Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington.
Luke Ruth is a Linked Data developer supporting the
Callimachus Project (http://callimachusproject.org).
Michael Hausenblas is Chief Data Engineer at MapR.
He formerly lead the Linked Data Research Centre in
Galway, Ireland.

19. http://www.manning.com/dwood/

20. Linked Data
about the
book!

21. The first chapter is free

22. Manning Early Access Program
(MEAP)
• Concept:
• Give away the first chapter
• Sell a low-resolution PDF to early readers
• Readers get PDF updates and a print copy
when it becomes available

23. Author Forum
http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=838

24. Success Criteria

25. Success Criteria
• Sell 100 copies in MEAP in one month

26. Success Criteria
• Sell 100 copies in MEAP in one month
• 598 copies in one month

27. Success Criteria
• Sell 100 copies in MEAP in one month
• 598 copies in one month
• Lots of interest in Linked Data!

28. What’s Inside
• What Linked Data is
• Find Linked Data you can reuse
• Use Linked Data in your applications
• Create your own Linked Data
• Build Linked Data applications using
standard Web techniques

29. Coding Examples
Callimachus

32. From EPA
From Wikipedia
Open Street Map

33. Subject
Object
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34. RDF
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35. http://www.manning.com/dwood/