DrupalConParis2009 - Semantic Web

Using Drupal for Media Asset / Content Management, Semantic Syndication / Promotion and Commerce

dahacouk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:29 +0000

Session

The distribution options for digital media creators (musicians, filmmakers, photographers and artists in general) are bewildering: Songbird, MySpace, Facebook, iTunes, YouTube, Napster, etc, etc...

Wouldn't if be great if we could upload our content and write descriptions and lyrics to one place - a place that we controlled and owned - and then these files and associated metadata got spread out to all the distribution points that we wanted, automatically?

Speaker bio:

* Daniel Harris (dahacouk), Kendra Initiative. Runs (1999 to present) Kendra Initiative - open media marketplace and interoperability research project. * Stéphane Corlosquet (scor), Digital Enterprise Research Institute. Stéphane has been a Drupal user and contributor since 2006. He is the maintainer of RDF CCK, Neologism and Evoc. * Darren Mothersele (darrenlondon), Darren Mothersele. Founding member of digital music distribution company Uploader. A user of Drupal since 2003 and full time Drupal developer since 2007.

Co presenters:

Darren

scor

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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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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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.

Co presenters:

Benjamin Melançon