The JHU course is a semester-long equivalent, and is in the $3000 range.

Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Joe Hourcle
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> On Mar 5, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Cindy Harper wrote:
>
> > Well, I just walked my 80-year-old mother through setting up her wireless
> > router and wireless on her desktop and laptop via telephone NY-to-VA, and
> > now I feel like I can think about another challenge for the coming
> > season(s). Does anyone know of a good online course that's an
> introduction
> > to semantic web technology that they could recommend? My goals are simply
> to
> > understand more and be able to code a little, and afterward applying it
> to
> > linked data? I know of one course this summer at Johns Hopkins
> Engineering
> > for Professionals program
> > http://ep.jhu.edu/course-homepages/viewpage.php?homepage_id=2993, but
> it's
> > rather pricey. Anyone know of cheaper options or creative ideas for
> funding?
>
>
> I don't know how introductory it'd be, but ASIS&T has been doing a lot of
> 'webinars' this year, and there are ones coming up on the 9th and 13th on
> linked data, and the first one sounds like it'll cover some semantic web
> issues::
>
> http://asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/linked-data.html
>
> (I can't compare prices to the JHU one, as I didn't see any pricing on the
> JHU site; this round of ASIS&T webinars are $25 for members, $59 for
> non-members; some in the past have been free for ASIS&T members)
>
> Also, looking at MIT's Open Courseware catalog, I see a few individual
> lessons that might be applicable:
>
> http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
>
> In the past, I've looked at some of the courses from W3schools (not
> affiliated
> with W3C, but has some tutorials on various things related to the web).
> They
> tend to be fairly introductory, but they have two that might be of
> interest:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/default.asp
> http://www.w3schools.com/semweb/default.asp
>
> -Joe
>
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> Joe Hourcle
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