The objective of this introductory tutorial is to provide participants with a hands-on experience of consuming Linked Data and a detailed exposure to the practical and technical steps that allow the consumption process. Our aim is that the participant can learn during a half-day what Linked Data is, how it can be consumed, what tools they can use and what they can do with it.
In addition to the conceptual introduction of Linked Data, this tutorial will cover three types of consumption: by humans, machines and applications. Participants will be able to use existing tools to graphically navigate Linked Data, understand the technical details on how the machine consumes Linked Data and then expose them to tools, which allow applications to consume Linked Data. This tutorial will also present current issues that need to taken in account when consuming Linked Data. Finally, we will show different applications that are consuming Linked Data and how they are doing it.
This tutorial will combine presentation by the tutors with demonstrations, hands-on sessions where participants can use tools and group discussion. We expect to appeal to researchers, developers, data managers/publishers and those seeking to commercially exploit the Semantic Web by consuming Linked Data. The pre-requisites for participation in this tutorial includes a broad technical understanding of the Web development and Web publishing process, basic conceptual understanding of the Semantic Web, RDF and SPARQL
This tutorial has been presented at the 2009 International Semantic Web conference, the 2010 World Wide Web Conference, and a our hour talk at the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference