Yeah, this is an unfortunate consequence of having the whole ecosystem mostly within academia, including the lack of tutorials and proper documentation (e.g. no

Yeah, this is an unfortunate consequence of having the whole ecosystem mostly within academia, including the lack of tutorials and proper documentation (e.g. not a 500 page standard). IMO the most interesting place right now for semantic web development is Wikidata. It's still pretty difficult for newcomers to contribute (as is the case for all Wikimedia projects) but at least it has many eyeballs and a very active community / ecosystem.