The Semantics for Biodiversity symposium at the TDWG Annual Conference has three sessions devoted to presentations related to use of semantic technologies in a biodiversity context. A fourth session [1], which will occur first chronologically, is a primer session intended to provide attendees with the background needed to understand the content of the three later sessions. The primer session assumes a familiarity with basic terminology used in Resource Description Framework (such as URI, triple, subject, predicate, object, property, namespace, value, graph, node, serialization). If you are not already familiar with these terms, there is an 18 minute video geared towards beginners that explains these terms and shows how RDF is presented in its most user-friendly form (Turtle serialization). The video can be watched at http://youtu.be/XAGifYBiXMY . Additional background information is available on the RDF Task Group's website. [2]. Have fun! Steve Baskauf [1] https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/448 [2] http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-rdf/wiki/Beginners -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: PMB 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 322-4942 If you fax, please phone or email so that I will know to look for it. http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu