Agaric Design Collective

Semantic Web

Conference on Semantics in Health and Life Sciences report-back at Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup

Presented to us by Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group

C-SHALS, this smaller conference, pre-competitive, more interesting public discussion than some other major industry events. Two day event.

Sponsored by pharmaceutical industry.

Gets very exciting, a lot of energy, semantic web but different emphasis.

 

Drupal Semantics presentation in NYC

Scor's presentation:

Just installing RDF CCK, you get all this for free.

It prefaces every field with site:

It's your own local vocabulary.

you can see the entire site schema vocabulary at /ns#

The source

RDF and RDF/XML are two different things.

On the abstract level, you have RDF, a graph representation of the knowledge.

For machines to

n-triple

 

Bringing Linked Data to Drupal; bringing the Semantic Web to the World

Based on my comment to Dries Buyteart's Drupal, the semantic web and search, which ended with "I can has semweb in Drupal core?"

Yes, we can!

 

RDFa in Drupal core: some suggestions from the semantic web community

http://drupal.org/project/vcard

Suggested simplification of the syntax, and a small correction, from

 

Semantic Web Firefox Extensions

Half of Agaric, at least, has installed these plugins for Mozilla-based browsers:

  • Semantic Radar: Displays a status bar icon to indicate presence of Semantic Web (RDF) data in the web page.
 

Reviving FOAF (scavanging Walkah's Drupal 4.6-era foaf module)

The release page as of October only showed 4.6 and a HEAD version from the same date (November 13, 2006) and about the same size. (Maybe HEAD was compatible with 4.7, i didn't try to use it, but that's the one examined below).

 

RDF Roundup

Resources and tools related to RDF

RDF

W3C RDF Overview page, more recent Semantic Web activities.

RDF category of Drupal modules for download:
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/116

SIOC-enriching Wordpress

 

RDF's long lineage in Drupal

RDF has a very long, if quiet, history in Drupal core.