Pollock, Jeffrey T. Semantic Web for Dummies. –For dummies. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, 2009.

I received a copy of this book for Christmas and started reading it today. I’m familiar with a lot of the bits and pieces of Semantic Web technology, but I’m hoping this book will help me build a more coherent mental model. I also spent some time playing around with my collections and profile on LibraryThing today. I’m experimenting with LibraryThing both as a method of helping me to manage and track the book reading that I’m doing while on sabbatical and as one example of a next generation cataloging system. It has some interesting features, but it takes a while to learn how to use them, and it mainly/only handles books, not journal articles or multimedia materials, so it has some serious limitations as a resource management tool for academic users, at least in its current state.

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