In a previous post, I discussed my excitement about the developments surrounding RDF and linked data in the Drupal community - namely, that these technologies will be part of core in Drupal 7, the newest release of the CMS. The work of folks like Lin Clark convinces me that Drupal can play a pivotal role in the linked data and semantic web taking off. Our recent experience here in my team further supports this idea.

In the last few weeks, we've been able to take ca. 4,600 items (abstracts of our articles) and import them into a Drupal 6 site and via the Open Calais module, auto-tag them with a few of the entities in Open Calais and thus have a quick "on-ramp" into using semantic technologies and linked data.  We have many questions about where to go from here, how to make our RDF richer, how to use modules like SPARQL Views to leverage the connections between our data and other data sets, etc. But, one thing's for certain, using a CMS like Drupal has made the process thus far effortless and user-friendly.

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