Publishing and Consuming Linked Data with Drupal

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.

RDF CCK enables site administrators to easily export their site content model and data in RDF (Resource Description Framework), allowing them to describe their content by means of various mappings to widely used RDF vocabularies (Dubin Core, FOAF, SIOC) via the evoc module. The new RDF SPARQL Endpoint module turns all such RDF content into a data endpoint useful for askying complex queries using the SPARQL language.

Drupal can also become a RDF data consumer with the RDF Proxy module. The user can specify what data needs to integrate into the site and how it should be integrated to the site's structure. This data is not only imported but also kept up to date, in sync with its original sources.

These modules allow for the setup of networked RDF Sites which both reuse and enrich the Linked Data Cloud.