Drupal 7 will use RDFa markup in core, in this session I will: -explain what the implications are of this and why this matters -give a short introduction to the Semantic web, RDF, RDFa and SPARQL in human language -give a short overview of the RDF modules that are available in contrib -talk about some of the potential use cases of all these magical technologies This is a talk from the Drupal track at Fosdem 2010.

1. Semantic Web: an introduction Kristof Van Tomme PRONOVIX.com @kvantomme

2. What is the Semantic Web?

3. Web 3.0 ?

4. Linked Data

6. Why is it important?

7. Robot Food

8. Reduces cost of Information Exchange

9. module > site > cloud

10. How does it work?

11. RDF

12. Resource Description Framework

13. Subject -> Predicate -> Object

14. RDFa

15. RDFa = XHTML

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa

17. OWL

18. Dictionary

19. URI

20. URI = unique ID

21. SPARQL

22. Query

23. What about Drupal?

24. Drupal giveth

25. Drupal 7 -> RDFa in core

26. 300.000+ websites...

27. Drupal taketh

28. Contrib ~60 “RDF”

29. Some examples

30. http://drupal.org/project/rdf

31. http://drupal.org/project/semantic_markup_editor

32. http://drupal.org/project/evoc

33. http://drupal.org/project/sparql

34. http://drupal.org/project/neologism

35. http://drupal.org/project/opencalais