The Semantic Web and Drupal

[We have a guest speaker from Ireland for our May meeting. The originally scheduled session for May will be pushed to June]

One of the key requirements for the Semantic Web to take off is the ability to express local content and its associated data model with existing well-known ontologies such as DC, FOAF, SIOC etc.

RDF data with a local RDF schema that doesn't have any references to other schema is not very useful.

We will present the latest developments in terms of RDF support in Drupal and in particular the modules RDF vocabulary importer and RDF CCK which when combined allow to map local content models to external vocabularies and export a mapped local schema and RDF data. Existing sites using the CCK module can simply install these modules and get a default local RDF schema for free. They can also map their local CCK fields to external RDF terms from any ontology available online. There will be an update on the status of RDF in Drupal core, after the RDF code sprint on May 11-14.

If time permits, Neologism will be discussed too, which allows to create and publish custom vocabularies in line with the RDF vocabulary best practices.

Bio:
Stéphane "scor" Corlosquet, has been contributing to Drupal for more than 3 years in various ways: core patches, contributed modules (SIOC, tasklist, RDFCCK, evoc, Neologism). He is a member of the Drupal security team, and member of the Irish Drupal user group (co-organizer and presenter).

scor's main interest is to bring Semantic Web technologies into Drupal. He is working towards a masters at DERI Galway, Ireland. scor has worked on the following projects:
- Neologism: an RDF vocabulary editor and publisher based on Drupal.
- RDF vocabulary importer (evoc): import any RDF vocabulary in Drupal
- RDF CCK: to map CCK fields and content types to
- RDFa in core for Drupal 7, see http://drupal.org/node/443824