I picked up this book wanting to learn more on NoSQL that I had to implement in developing some packages. This book serves well as a beginners guide : why we need semantics, and compares current ideas and structure of SQL databases to the more flexible and abstract forms that it is trying to promote.
For me it was written in a very logical progression and concepts were introduced in a very good pace. The book goes on to talk about RDF and OWL together with how they can be implemented (O'Reilly has another book Learning SPARQL which may be a logical progressing after this book). No doubt it is not going to make you a pro on the subject, but it was sufficient for me to understand the basics of semantic data structures.
Few things you might want to take note:
- this book uses Python, so a basic understanding would be very helpful to understand how things are implemented
- the website semprog.com is not available anymore, but you can get the code package at http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596153823/Programming-the-Semantic-Web.zip
PS: If you don't like to read, youtube now has a lot of channels talking about NoSQL and semantics including O'Reilly themselves, so you might want to check that out.
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