I have been wanting to write a post on the relationship of Linked Data and the Web of Data to the Semantic Web, but even now I am still struggling to get a secure handle on the distinctions between these three related concepts. Meanwhile, I stumbled across a relevant blog post by Tom Heath on the topic entitled "Linked Data? Web of Data? Semantic Web? WTF?" It's difficult to get a hard-core representative summary, but a semi-reasonable approximation is:

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