Notes from the July 12th bi-weekly linked data code sprint

Notes from the July 12th bi-weekly linked data code sprint

Participants: linclark, scor, milesw, cwells73, ronald_istos

Issues:

A. Relation Model - possible DX issues with reusing RDF terminology

The Relation Module takes an interesting and very flexible approach to describe relationships between entities in Drupal. It makes direct reference to the RDF graph model and maps those concepts directly. However, it does this in a manner that is not compatible with the actual Drupal Core RDFa functionality. The main concerns of the RDF group with respect to that are:

a. Is there a way to make the two approach somehow compatible - general consensus seems to be that that is difficult and adds overhead that nobody would be willing to take on.

b. With A unresolved There is a need to make it clear to people using Relation that they will not then be able to take advantage of the RDF mapping functionality and all the RDFa / linked data goodness that comes with that. It perhaps should be made clear that for people intending to people actual Semantic Web-enabled sites uses the Drupal Core way of doing that the Relation module is to be avoided - while References| although not as awesome might cover their needs better.

B. SPARQL registry field integration unnecessary

The SPARQL registry object is essentially a developer facing component to the point that having a UI for it may not only be unnecessary but also misleading. The suggestion to remove the ability to add fields to it therefore is generally accepted. In addition, it may well be worth converting the Registry to use the Entity API to derive any goodness that can come of that (e.g. exportables).

C. Change 'endpoint' to 'uri' on endpoint objects

The change would add clarity for developers so makes sense to go ahead with it.

D. SPARQL Views progress

Lin is hoping to release an example module for SPARQL Views that making it easier for people to figure out how to configure SPARQL views

E. Documentation issues

The general agreement is that more examples are needed and we I am planning to do an example that shows how you can map Drupal content to an ontology (beyond the core mappings) and then query your Drupal site with SPARQL to do so.