drupal and the semantic web
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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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