Mark Graham and I have just returned from Maynooth in Ireland where we participated in a really great workshop called Code and the City organised by Rob Kitchin and his team at the Programmable City project. We presented a draft paper entitled, ‘Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and Rise of the Semantic Web’ where we trace how the city of Jerusalem is represented across Wikipedia and through WikiData, Freebase and to Google’s Knowledge Graph in order to answer questions about how linked data and the semantic web changes a user’s interactions with the city. We’ve been indebted to the folks from all of these projects who have helped us navigate questions about the history and affordances of these projects so that we can better understand the current Web ecology. The paper is currently being revised and will be available soon, we hope!