Drupal Development

$ cvs update -C

(Locally modified node.admin.inc moved to .#node.admin.inc.1.24)
(Locally modified node.module moved to .#node.module.1.974)
(Locally modified taxonomy.admin.inc moved to .#taxonomy.admin.inc.1.27)
(Locally modified taxonomy.module moved to .#taxonomy.module.1.425)
(Locally modified taxonomy.test moved to .#taxonomy.test.1.3)

[... and a ton more stuff]

cvs update -C will move all the files you have changed to a renamed file and bring down the originals again.

Resolution

Schema for Data Objects

in any given data object I have to make use of at least two taxonomies

<taxon>
...
<ScientificName>Argiope aurantia</ScientificName>

Major participatory thrust: Drupal multisites (eventually standalone) called LifeDesks

concentrating on expert taxonomists now
our goal is vetted content for EOL

lots of features in core taxonomy that we will want

canonical name
common name
hierarchical XML import

using APIs listed

Taxonomy Management

Drupal should add a "create users" permission, split out from administer users, because this is a useful privilege for certain roles to have.

For instance, managers of organic groups should be able to create users that they can then add to their group. They should not be able to administer users (edit or delete existing users).

Resolution

<?php
    // if the data's not good, send us to the home page
    // note:  drupal_goto without any arguments sends to / - the front page
    // or could use <front> -- url() is called and treats the same
    // so this is not necessary:
  return drupal_goto(drupal_get_normal_path(variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node')));
 
   // this will do:
  return drupal_goto();
?>

Resolution

No answer:
How Can I Search Unpublished Content?
http://drupal.org/node/300803

Romania had a similar issue:
Can't access unpublished content that needs editing
http://drupal.ro/node/2394

Leads the New York City Semantic Web Meetup.

RDF - Resource Description Framework
Sparql - an RDF query language

RDF by nature is a graph, whereas a relational database typically fits into tables. That's the biggest difference

Define parents to match your data set and it will create a subgraph.

Define graph please?

A graph is a label and a value.

My presentation for my CEO a year ago:

Relationships are directed. The relationship has a type and a direction.

If you just use a tag, you get a cloud.

Adapted from Kathleen Murtaugh's How to make mass changes to nodes in Drupal, just replacing most of the interesting parts with simply node_delete.

Code for Amazing Things online fundraising auction, the Drupal 4.7 corpse i reanimate year after year.

"chx has a dropbox module in CVS, which'd provide a 'clipboard' for putting stuff into, for operations to be taken on later." (catch comment on Taxonomy improvements thread)

Resolution

Resources and tools related to RDF

RDF

W3C RDF Overview page, more recent Semantic Web activities.

RDF category of Drupal modules for download:
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/116

RDF has a very long, if quiet, history in Drupal core. In the year 2000, May 18, in what I think is the first commit to the still-going CVS repository that holds the Drupal project — back when Drupal was called drop — Dries Buytaert included a file called rdf.php.