Getting data from the Semantic Web (Ruby) - semanticweb.org.edu

This tutorial is for programmers used to building software on top of non-Semantic-Web data sources: using screen scraping techniques, or using APIs that return XML, JSON, CSV etc. Getting data from Semantic Web sources is typically done in one of two ways: either directly getting data in an RDF serialization over HTTP or by using a SPARQL endpoint. In this tutorial, we shall get some data from DBP