A couple of things you might look at:

[1] just published, free HTML version ... Heath and Bizer
http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/

Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) Linked Data: Evolving the
Web into a Global Data Space (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on
the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan &
Claypool.

[2] the materials for the 2-day intro to "Web of Data" from Talis
http://dynamicorange.com/2010/11/03/web-of-data/
leading to:
http://api.talis.com/stores/training/items/training.html
http://api.talis.com/stores/training/items/exercises.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Cindy Harper
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] online course on the semantic web?

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

Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Joe Hourcle
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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
>
> -----
> Joe Hourcle
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> Solar Data Analysis Center
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>