In this session you will learn how to turn Drupal into a Linked Data provider by exposing the content of your site in RDF and, reversely, we will look at the options to take advantage of the growing amount of Linked Data available on the Semantic Web which you can easily reuse on your site.
In this session I'll be introducing Spezzle, a planning tool that helps you and your customers make Drupal site specifications that will require minimal custom coding.
The platform allows you to collaborate with the community in general or with a set of people on feature libraries, basically functionality recepies for Drupal sites. But besides the feature description there is the possibility to add information about:
the implementation of the feature (e.g. what modules, how you should configure them)
Sorry, this is not a promo for a new MTV "reality" show. This session will show you how to use the wealth of Linked Open Data (LOD) resources being developed by such sites as DBPedia, Freebase, and MusicBrainz to augment the content on your site and link it to Semantic Web resources.
Linked Data is one of many principles and standards evolving in the Semantic Web world that your Drupal site can tie into via RDF, JSON, etc. Using (and becoming part of) the LOD world can offer a wide variety of benefits to the sites you build by drawing from data available in the cloud.
Drupal in specific, and the web in general, are developing to be more and more semantic.
By “semantic” we mean that the content describes itself. Drupal 7 will probably contain many RDF capabilities, that will allow us to inject descriptive data into our website, thus making it more understandable to search engines, or other websites (and eventually yes... also to humans...).
OAI-ORE (Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange) is one special case, in which media assets on a website, are described and aggregated in an XML file (RDF, RDFa or ATOM).
Over the years, there has been multiple attempts to integrate RDF and Drupal with many contributed modules like Relationship, Semantic Search or FOAF. None of them has proven to be sustainable and popular until 2007, when the RDF API came out for Drupal 6, followed by many other RDF modules for Drupal 6.
