RDFa in Drupal: Bringing Cheese to the Web of Data
"RDFa in Drupal: Bringing Cheese to the Web of Data" is the title of our short paper which was recently accepted at the 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web. It seems that the topic of food on the semantic web is the new black as this paper comes out at the same time as Boris Mann's announcement about the Open Restaurants aka "BaconPatioBeer".
This paper illustrates how a CMS like Drupal can be used on the Semantic Web and make every Drupal site part of the growing Web of Data. We created a cheese review site as a use case. It relies on the RDF API and the RDF CCK modules.
The good news is that we are working to get this RDF goodness into Drupal core! We are organizing an RDF code sprint. This sprint builds on Dries' ideas expressed in his recent posts Drupal, the semantic web and search and RDFa and Drupal. With RDF in the core of Drupal and RDFa output by default, it's dozens of thousands of websites which will all of a sudden start publishing their data as RDF.
So far, Stéphane Corlosquet, Florian Loretan, Benjamin Melançon and Rolf Guescini have signed up. How about you?
Some others are willing to come but cannot afford the trip until some funding is secured. To help us fund the sprint and bring more Drupal rockstars on board, please consider making a donation using the ChipIn widget on this page. The money will be used to cover flight, food and hotel costs for the sprinters. All sprinters are generously donating their time to make this happen. It would also be great to fly in a few additional people with extensive testing and Fields experience. Any excess money will be used to add more people, or will be donated to the Drupal Association.
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