DrupalConParis2009 - RDF

Publishing and Consuming Linked Data with Drupal

scor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:31:36 +0000

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.

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Speaker bio:

Stéphane is currently working towards a Master's degree in Semantic Web at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. He is particularly interested in bringing Semantic Web technologies into Drupal and is leading the effort to integrate RDF in the next version of Drupal core. He also maintains several RDF modules. In addition, he has been in charge of IT and web development of Eco Innovation since February 2006. He has also been a web developer for the French company Iciformation since 2003.

Spezzle, a planning tool for Drupal

kvantomme — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:16:48 +0000

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)

Speaker bio:

Kristof Van Tomme is a Belgian who together with his partner Laura Vass set up a Drupal shop in Hungary. Kristof was the initiator and co-lead for Drupalcon Szeged. He's got a degree in Life sciences and has worked to spread Drupal adoption in the European Biotech sector. He organized the first Drupal user group meeting in Hungary (in Szeged) and was involved in the initiation of the Budapest meetup. He also teaches an introductory Drupal course at the University of Szeged. Since May this year Kristof has been living again in Belgium where he is starting up a second office for Pronovix.

Linked Data in the Real World.

febbraro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:40:00 +0000

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.

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Speaker bio:

Frank Febbraro is a co-founder and CTO of Phase2 Technology, a technology firm known for innovative use of content management systems, open data integration and APIs, community applications and semantic web. Frank is the architect of Phase2's OpenPublish which integrates Thomson Reuter’s OpenCalais service with Drupal into a Semantic Publishing Platform. Frank is most interested in integrating current and emerging technologies to solve tomorrow's challenges. He has been a speaker on practical Semantic Web implementations and Drupal development.

Semantic Media Syndication, powered by Drupal, Flex and OAI-ORE

z.stolar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:33:15 +0000

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).

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Day 2

Speaker bio:

Zohar is Linnovate's co-founder and CTO. He helped building up the Israeli Drupal community, and helps new Drupal developers to become Drupal professionals. He wrote the first Drupal training program in Israel, and is now leading few exciting Drupal projects, for clients around the globe (LA to Moscow), while continuing the build of an amazing Drupal shop, with an amazing team.

The state of RDF in Drupal 7

scor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:10 +0000

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.

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Co presenters:

Benjamin Melançon