Slides from presentation in OpenOffice Impress format
Data Base Technology (PDF) W.C. McGee's 1980 paper on database technology up to that point
25 years of database history (starting in 1955): blog posting on W.C. McGee paper
W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Energy Industries; Part I: Oil & Gas
The Integration of Biological Data Using Semantic Web Technologies PowerPoint file by Susie Stephens of Eli Lilly and Eric Prud'hommeaux of the W3C and MIT
Using SPARQL to query Bart Simpson's blackboard messages (Part 2 of 2; links back to part 1.)