- From: David Peterson <david@squishyfish.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:33:38 +1000
- CC: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Hello all, I recently attended Drupalcon Szeged [1] in Hungary. There was a great interest in Semantic Web tech and in particular RDFa. Whilst there were no scheduled presentations on RDFa, there were a few BOFs on microformats and RDFa. One BOF in particular was really flowing and it went quickly from microformats to RDFa and what can be done whithin Drupal [2] core to enable RDFa. I had a continuing chat with Dries Buytaert (creator of Drupal and CTO of Acquia [3]) where he expressed his continued interest in making Drupal a linked data client. To get things into core is very difficult, even for Dries. So he is looking for the least painful way to make it happen. So the discussion we had was on vocabularies; essentially what vocabularies can be burned-in and thusly immediately useful. I think FOAF for each user is obvious, SIOC to describe the site and its structure... then what? I am aware of Manu's great posts lately relating to DIGG. I hate to ask this question (please no stones!) but why SIOC? I keep wondering, what is the business case for its use here and how can we sell it as "useful" to the Web 2.0 crowd? Don't get me wrong, I think SIOC is great, but I am having a tough time selling the concept as an enabler... This would be a big win for RDFa. If the right case is made (and it is nearly there) for RDFa to be "on" by default, then within a year of Drupal 7's release there would be roughly ~100 thousand sites. That is a lot of RDFa and a lot of rich data for Searchmonkey and Sindice (amongst others) to play with. Let me know your thoughts and use-cases. I want to have the most compelling arguments ready. Not for Dries's sake but for some of the skeptics in the Drupal community that need to be convinced. Dries is on board and that is a big win... Cheers, David Peterson [1] Drupalcon Szeged http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/ [2] Drupal http://drupal.org [3] Acquia http://acquia.com/
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