"CCK semantic web compliant fields" and Yahoo SearchMonkey

Posted by julma on July 11, 2008 at 5:23pm

It used to be difficult for me to imagine a simple application that really use web semantic technologies.

Then yersteday, I attended a Yahoo presentation in Paris about the searchmonkey API
http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/

So I give it a try with my favorite web site drupal.org.
It is fun. You should try. It just takes two minutes.
But drupal.org doesn't use websemantic technologies like microformat and RDF yet.

To see the difference, try it with the url facebook.com/p/*
Then you have also the fields available from the hcard microformat to play with.

Is there a drupal web site out there to test microformat or RDF with yahoo searchmonkey ?

Something like "CCK semantic web compliant fields" ?

Comments

Website made with Drupal using RDFa

Posted by Got@groups.drup... on July 11, 2008 at 8:10pm

I use RDFa on my Website made with Drupal (http://www.lespetitescases.net). I introduce RDFa markup in drupal templates. If you are interrested by this, you can read this two posts in french about this "RDFaization" : http://www.lespetitescases.net/rdfaiser-votre-blog-1-la-theorie and http://www.lespetitescases.net/rdfaiser-votre-blog-2-la-pratique .

Using this markup, I made a Yahoo searchmonkey app to have a customized presentation for blogPost (http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=FnV.s). If you want another informations, you can read this post : http://www.lespetitescases.net/yahoo-apporte-bananes-web-semantique-1 . I hope to write the second part the next week.

I hope these informations can help you, you can contact me if you want another informations.

Your articles are great

Posted by julma on July 15, 2008 at 2:04pm

If I understand it is easy to add the RDFa markups directly in the templates files.

But then can we imagine a tool for common users that automaticaly add the RDFa markups or that provide a good UI to set and add them without a line of code ?