Practical Semantic Web and Why You Should Care
Abstract:
Video at http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-PracticalSemanticWebAndWh...
In this session, I'll talk about the semantic web and provide some background information about it, why it matters, and where it is in its evolutionary cycle (RDFa just got accepted as W3C recommendation, for example). Then I'll talk about how it fits into Drupal and what tools are available today. I'll close by discussing what areas we need to work on and where we should go next.
Presenters:
Boris Mann
Agenda
- What is the Semantic Web?
- Open Data!
- Why should you care?
- Where does Drupal come in?
- What’s next?
Goals
An understanding of where the semantic web is today, how it fits into Drupal, and when and where you should use semantic web techniques.
Resources
- Drupalcon Boston 2008 video from the future
- RDFa is a W3C Recommendation
- RDFa Primer
- Semantic Web group on groups.drupal.org
- Drupal and the Semantic Web Neologism project at Drupalcon Szeged 2008
Modules
These are a handful of modules mentioned -- there are more!
- http://drupal.org/project/rdf - core API module that is a dependency for most others
- http://drupal.org/project/exhibit - displays structured data in the form of rich visualizations
- http://drupal.org/project/rdfcck - RDF cck module for mapping content types and fields to RDF classes or properties
- http://drupal.org/project/evoc - RDF external vocabulary importer
- http://drupal.org/project/sparql - enables the use of SPARQL queries
5 Comments
notes from this session
notes from an audience member:
http://interdependentweb.com/DrupalCon/2009/PracticalSemanticWeb
comments welcome
Video
http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-PracticalSemanticWebAndWh...
Recorded by: Robert Nelson Vance
RDF Screencast
I would love to get a link to the screencast you showed at the beginning.
Looking forward to this
Do you have plans to talk about some of the existing modules? Notably these include the Bendikan contributions, SPARQL and RDF, and scor's RDF CCK and SIOC?
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
Yes
Although, I'm going to try and focus on the wider use of open data, and how Drupal can help kickstart a web of data / web of people.
Drupal 7 looks to be having more and more of this baked in, which is great to see.