1. A Web of data : toward the idea of the Semantic Web -- 2. The building block for the Semantic Web : RDF -- 3. Other RDF-related technologies : microformats, RDFa, and GRDDL -- 4. RDFS and ontology -- 5. OWL : Web ontology language -- 6. SPARQL : querying the Seamntic Web -- 7. FOAF : Friend of a Friend -- 8. Semantic markup at work : rich snippets and SearchMonkey -- 9. Semantic Wiki -- 10. DBpedia -- 11. Linked open data -- 12. Building the foundation for development on the Semantic Web -- 13. Jena : a framework for development on the Semantic Web -- 14. Follow your nose : a basic Semantic Web agent -- 15. More application examples on the Semantic Web.