Hello all,
I've watched many a video about how great the semantic web is and the possibilities. And done a great deal of reading. Yet, I feel rather ignorant as I come to drupal and want to start using the semantic web features in Drupal. I'm needing a very practical way to get started... I don't mind doing reading. There's just so much and different modules that I don't know where to start and what I actually need, and why... I don't know what I would map from what to what? I have heard the terms and have an idea what RDF is, RDFa, Sparql, FOAF, SIOC. Now what does that do? How do I set this up? A little semantic markup goes a long way I heard. I guess it would be good to submit our sites to the semantic search engines when we do have something semantic about our sites. Yet, what would we send? I have a rdf file that is a php file. I was looking for a .rdf or .xml file.
I feel unsure where to begin. Again, I don't mind reading or researching. I just could use some direction as to where to start in this. I already have CCK, RDF CCK, evoc (which is giving me errors), OpenCalais (which told me that ARC2 wasn't setup right, Sparql, hcard, and vcard.
I'm just not sure what does what. I'd appreciate some direction...
Currently lost, I'm embarrassed to say,
Bruce
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Hi brucewhealtonjr, We're
Hi brucewhealtonjr,
We're aware that the series of module RDF in Drupal 6 (RDF CCK, evoc, SIOC) can be tricky to setup, and this is why we've been working on a refactoring for Drupal 7. In fact, some of this refactoring is now part of Drupal 7 core (RDFa and RDF mapping API). Some of the modules in Drupal 6 like evoc and RDF CCK are being merged with the main RDF contrib, which will make it much more easier and straight forward to get up and running with RDF in Drupal 7. If you can, I would strongly encourage you to start looking at Drupal 7 and get used to its new UI and APIs. We're currently actively working on the Drupal 7 version of RDF in contrib. It's currently at http://github.com/scor/rdf but there should be a dev snapshot on drupal.org soon.