Dr David Stuart is currently a researcher in the Centre for e-Research at King's College London, and an honorary research fellow in the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton, where he was previously Web 2.0 Research Fellow. He has a PhD in information science and regularly writes about library and information science topics for professional journals and magazines.

• 1. Open dataIntroductionOpen science Commercial sectorGovernment dataLibrary dataConclusion 2. A semantic web: one that’s meaningful to computers IntroductionWeb 1.0Web 2.0 Web 3.0 – a semantic web Conclusion 3. Data silos IntroductionWhat is a data silo? Data documents Application programming interfaces (APIs)Programming librarians? The advantages and disadvantages of data silos Conclusion 4. The semantic web: the RDF vision IntroductionLinked RDFLinked Data: old wine in new bottles? The semantic web stackMaking use of Linked Data Conclusion 5. Embedded semantics IntroductionWhy embed semantic data?MicroformatsCOinS Embedding RDF in attributesMicrodata Selecting the right formatInteracting with embedded semanticsConclusion6. The library and the web of data IntroductionBooks are for useEvery reader their bookEvery book its reader Save the time of the reader The library is a growing organism Conclusion 7. The future of the librarian and the web of data IntroductionEmbracing the web of data Ignoring the web of dataLessons from the newspaper industry Becoming a data librarian ConclusionBibliography

"All in all, Stuart has produced a must-read for any library or information professional (or anyone working in the delivery, structuring and organization of information via the web, which includes a whole host of other folks). Without getting mired in technical details, but yet providing enough for the uninitiated to get a "flavour" for what's involved, there is enough here to sink one's teeth into and links to other resources for further reading to expand on the concepts introduced in this work. I highly recommend it!"