This is an annotated bibliography of papers, talks, blog entries, software tools, etc, likely to be of interest to people working on crosscloud projects.
At some point soon this should probably be converted to a machine readable format, and organized with tags or catagories or something. Maybe bibtex (cf jabref) displayed using bibtex-js? Or something using linked data?
Obviously this is just getting started.
Jun 2014, Sandro Hawke
Slides from a talk to the W3C staff. Tries to connect it with existing technologies, ideas, and efforts.
Nov 2013, Sandro Hawke
Slides from a talk to the MIT Linked Data Ventures class. Lays out some motivation and research agenda for crosscloud.
Dec 2000, Tim Berners-Lee
Shows how simple and general the RDF model is, and how easy it is to use in N3 (which is basically the same as W3C Turtle).
Linked Data (5 page blog post)
Jul 2006, Tim Berners-Lee
Seminal "Design Issues" posting from Tim, defining "Linked Data".
An Introduction to Linked Data (38min video, slides)
Jun 2010, Sandro Hawke
General video tutorial on Linked Data, going into some detail on how things are identified with IRIs.
RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax (12 page spec)
Feb 2014, Cyganiak, Wood, Lanthaler
This is the technical defininition of RDF. Fairly easy to read, actually.
Search RDF data with SPARQL (8 page tutorial)
SPARQL 1.1 (3 page overview of spec)
OWL 2 Primer (24 page spec)
Oct 2009 (trivially revised Dec 2012), Hitzler et al
Good introduction to OWL, from the OWL Working Group
Tramp 2012
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database (paper, slides, video)
Sandro says: I think we can converge with much of this functionality. Note the way updates are distributed and retained as entities in their own right.
Sandro says: Very similar goals
Sandro says: The most famous decentralized social network, also uses the term "pods" (although a bit differently)