This document provides an overview of the semantic web, including its major aspects and building blocks. It discusses the conceptual graph model that underlies the semantic web and standards like RDF, RDF Schema, and SPARQL. Key points covered include how semantic data is represented using URI identifiers and triples, how RDF and RDFa can be used to add metadata to web resources, how semantic data can be stored and queried using triplestores and SPARQL respectively. The document aims to explain the basics of the semantic web and how structured data representations and querying can allow linking and integrating of data on the web.