Reference

Works best with well-written long-form prose (not well for tweets).

Puts the document into topic.

17 now, will probably go up to 300 and stop there.

semantic web compliant format: RDF

Then goes a step farther. For a subset, takes you into the linked data world. Another emerging standard, a Tim Berners-Lee initiative

for instance dbpedia
CIA World Factbook
now OpenCalais

Calais is a web service. Hard to demo.

When machines are talking to machines, usually takes us half-a-second to process a normal news article.

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-and-geospatial-web

mapnik

mapnik.org

problems

• language
• history
• usage
• privacy
• look

drupal -> nice map module -> nasa

wms?
opengeospatial.org

ogc compliant

noaa wms

georss - friendfeed

kml

kml and georss in gmaps api

geojson

some useful drupal development tips

• - Firefox profile manager
• - imacros - testing user interface
• - Drupal for Firebug - !!! - module and an extension!!! awesome!!
• - modules that are cool -> admin menu, devel, simpletest, logintobbogan, xdebug (php degugger)

source code and config management

Dries Buyteart:
We do this every six months about...
DrupalCon DC 2009 State of Drupal

spoiler: DRÜPAL ROCKS!!

History of Drupal, his student dorm photo with the giant red sombrero in 1999.

Learning more about PHP and MySQL, the new kids on the block at this time.

DrupalCon Antwerp, more than twice the expected people.

Slide with Robert douglass and his French horn. Wrote the very first Drupal book.

Demoed:
Drag and droppable widgets AND tabs for the front page dashboard for users logged into Drupal.org.

[notes with ALL the personality (even Earl Mile's puppet, George) taken out]

Drupal now is a million lego pieces.

Your module is caught in a tug of war. [People wanting to add more features to it.]

99% of what we build is geared toward people clicking on things and getting it configured.

Scor's presentation:

Just installing RDF CCK, you get all this for free.

It prefaces every field with site:

It's your own local vocabulary.

you can see the entire site schema vocabulary at /ns#

The source

RDF and RDF/XML are two different things.

On the abstract level, you have RDF, a graph representation of the knowledge.

For machines to

n-triple

turtle is currently the one

RDFa was just standardized, it's a serialization built into the HTML.

It's all the same thing on the RDF level.

books.google.com
Will let you "Find this book in my local library"
Using their deal with http://WorldCat.org

My friend, built a lot of Google's search, searches for "Patience, Grasshopper" and find nothing that explains the reference (from Kung Fu).

92% say they are good at search
66% search less than one a day

How are they confident in a complex skill

People get answers and are happy. We can make them two or three times as happy.

We count on many searches being simple.

Siavash: If you brought in the DHTMLX package, it would help a lot of these things.

Resolution

Ask Agaric, from a semantic web mailing list:

I need to redo a few websites I've been totally neglecting and obviously wanted to to have RDF support in the software. Does anyone have opinions on which sort of Wiki or CMS system has either good plugins or built in support for metadata management and embedding? I've been looking at Drupal and Mediawiki so far. My hosting service doesn't support anything well except PHP based systems, which is a shame as I really don't like PHP.

Opinions? Experiences?

for Indymedia:

http://drupal.org/project/views_tabs
http://drupal.org/project/fivestarextra

Resolution