Drupal and the Semantic Web

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Drupal 7 will use RDFa markup in core, in this session I will:-explain what the implications are of this and why this matters-give a short introduction to the Semantic web, RDF, RDFa and SPARQL in human language-give a short overview of the RDF modules that are available in contrib-talk about some of the potential use cases of all these magical technologiesThis is a talk from the Drupal track at Fosdem 2010.

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Semantic Web: an introduction

Kristof Van Tomme

PRONOVIX.com

@kvantomme

What is the Semantic Web?

Web 3.0 ?

Linked Data

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05.html

Why is it important?

Robot Food

Reduces cost of Information Exchange

module > site > cloud

How does it work?

RDF

Resource Description Framework

Subject → Predicate → Object

RDFa

RDFa = XHTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa

OWL

Dictionary

URI

URI = unique ID

SPARQL

Query

What about Drupal?

Drupal giveth

Drupal 7 →

RDFa in core

300.000+ websites...

Drupal taketh

Contrib ~60 “RDF”

Some examples

http://drupal.org/project/rdf

http://drupal.org/project/semantic_markup_editor

http://drupal.org/project/evoc

http://drupal.org/project/sparql

http://drupal.org/project/neologism

http://drupal.org/project/opencalais

Kristof Van Tomme

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+32 477 699 884

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