I presented this talk at the June 1, 2016 meeting of the CESTA (https://cesta.stanford.edu/) Graduate Fellows at Stanford University. What follows here is the translation of some very loose and informal notes into something more resembling a blog post.
Full text viewable at http://matthewlincoln.net/2016/06/06/linked-open-realities-the-joys-and-pains-of-using-lod-for-research.html