Drupal and the Semantic Web
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The document presents a talk by Dr. Sameer Verma on the integration of Drupal and the semantic web at the Caribbean Open Data Conference 2013, emphasizing the importance of context in data utilization. It discusses various concepts like taxonomies, ontologies, and RDF in managing data relationships, with a focus on how these tools can enhance information retrieval and knowledge creation. The content also highlights the progression of linked data technologies and the collaborative efforts within the Drupal community to support semantic data usage.
Drupal and the Semantic Web
- 1. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems Department College of Business, San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ [email protected] Unless noted otherwise Drupal and the Semantic Web Weaving Data to Build a Commons Across Community, Enterprise and Government Caribbean Open Data Conference 2013 University of the West Indies, Jamaica
- 2. @sameerverma Caution: Context can vary. Dramatically.
- 3. me
- 5. Also me Institutional Academic Partner Centre of Excellence Mona School of Business University of the West Indies Jamaica http://coe-msb.org/about
- 8. Atoms v Bits From Analog to Digital
- 11. Produce Consume Think -> Can the consumer also become the producer?
- 12. ācommonsā
- 13. August Town Jamaica CC By SA @varunbaker
- 14. CC By SA @varunbaker
- 15. Needle meet Haystack Can we find that beautiful mermaid, made by a child in August Town, Jamaica?
- 16. What are we really seeking? Data ā Information ā Knowledge
- 17. WorldWideWeb (www version 1.0) Tim's Boss: āVague, but exciting.ā
- 18. Web The plan: semantic. It became: Glorified Brochure. Hand-coded HTML. Horrible HTML editors.
- 19. Human readable Web 1.0 Human readable? Yes. Machine readable? Not quite.
- 20. Human understandable Guess who? All on one page? It must be about him ...and his picture ...and his work ...and his email ...and ...
- 21. Massive network Metcalfe's law Utility = square of the nodes How do we keep track?
- 22. Web servers and Web browsers
- 23. Connections Dialup DSL Wi-Fi 4G ... Network connections ā neutral (we hope)
- 24. Relationships āContent may be king, but context is everything.ā - @sameerverma
- 26. Meaningful relationships? SVO Subject Verb Object
- 27. Subject-Verb-Object Sameer works at SF State University Sameer works with UWI Mona Sameer loves to drink Blue Mountain Coffee
- 28. Subject-Verb-Object Sameer works at SF State University Sameer works with UWI Mona Sameer loves to drink Blue Mountain Coffee
- 29. Too many relationships How do we keep track? Taxonomies. Ontologies. Yes, those are two different things.
- 30. Twitter # Hashtag as an ad-hoc taxonomy. āFolksonomy.ā Halpin, H., Robu, V. Shepherd, H. The Complex Dynamics of Collaborative Tagging Proceedings, International Conference on World Wide Web, ACM Press, 2007.
- 31. Timeline Microformats - 2003 RDFa - 2004 Microdata - 2009 RDFa Lite
- 32. RDF Resource Description Framework W3C standard RDF's data model and XML syntax ā 1999 http://www.w3.org/RDF/
- 33. RDF Example slim:me foaf:name āSlim Shadyā prefix = āslim : http://slimshady.org/#ā prefix = āfoaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is My name is Slim Shady SVO
- 34. RDFa RDFa = implementation of RDF in HTML attributes With RDFa Ā <h2Ā property="http://purl.org/dc/terms/title"> TheĀ CommonsĀ Initiative </h2> Without RDFa Ā <h2> TheĀ CommonsĀ Initiative </h2>
- 36. Marley
- 37. Marley
- 39. RDF timeline in Drupal rdf.php (2000) FOAF, vCard (2004) Relationship (2005) Semantic Search (2006) RDF (2007) OpenCalais (2008) RDF CCK (2008)
- 40. Drupal 7 Supports RDF in the core Related modules: RDFx Schema.org Continued and improved support in Drupal 8
- 41. Drupal 7 sample
- 45. One does not simply do open data
- 46. Open Data RDF fits Store natively or in datastores Federate stores and create linked data Search using SPARQL Giant Global Graph
- 49. Government
- 54. Get started http://Drupal.org Build a virtual machine server
- 57. What are we really seeking? Data ā Information ā Knowledge
- 58. A big āthank youā to: Lin Clark https://drupal.org/user/396253 Stephane Corlosquet https://drupal.org/user/52142 Jeff Walpole https://drupal.org/user/276718
- 59. Sources ā Mermaid, August Town, Jamaica ā https://secure.flickr.com/photos/olpc/5763693510/in/set-72157626689828813/ ā Tea, Earl Grey, Hot ā https://teachingphysics.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1554558-picard_earl_grey_hot_super.png ā One does not simply do open data ā http://memegenerator.net/instance/36926082 ā Tim Berners-Lee: Web Developer ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug6XAw6hzaw ā URIBurner ā Marley Example ā http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ed2ac1e9-d51d-4eff-a2c2-8 5e81abd6360 ā OpenPublish ā http://openpublishapp.com/ ā OpenPublic ā http://openpublicapp.com/ Ontotext ā http://www.ontotext.com
- 60. Made with: