The Semantic Web Boot Camp MIT IAP course is designed to get you up speed in making data available in RDF on the web. A practical course designed as a series of morning lectures with afternoon clinics to try things out.
This page is to collect related materials, and may be added to by anyone.
Home Pages for the Instructors/Lecturers
For some background materials on the Semantic Web, you might like to check out:
The Semantic Web (Scientific American, 2001) an article that provides the "vision" of the Semantic Web.
The W3C Semantic Web activity page which includes a number of articles and presentations by Tim Berners-Lee and others as well as pointers to all of the W3C SW recommendations (the documents defining the languages used on the Semantic Web) and much more.
Jim Hendler's presentation page which has some talks about the Semantic Web from various perspectives over the past few years.
Some useful software/project descriptions/downloads of use in the course:
The tabulator Project which is being developed at MIT for browsing/using Semantic Web data (and will be used in the course)
The SWOOP Project which was developed at Maryland (now moved to Google Open-source Code Development) for browsing and editing RDFS and OWL ontologies.
The Mspace browser developed at the University of Southampton to demonstrate an interface for viewing Semantic Web stores]
Course notes
Some useful links
the home page for the Maryland MINDSWAP group which is generated from an RDF database, uses OWL - people, papers,etc. are all being linked via RDF/URIs
Turtle a (sort of like a) subset of N3
Rdfconvert a web interface to a N3 - RDF/XML converter (not totally up to date)
Architecture of the WWW (vol 1) General Web architecture background (W3C TAG)
Some important "specifications" (formal or otherwise):
DOAP Description of a Project ontology
Some links to learning what is happening today on the Semantic Web: