RDF is being integrated into the core of Drupal 7
DERI is involved in the Drupal Community by giving the relevant practise to integrate RDF in Drupal and also by supporting some events such as the Drupalcamp Galway of this last weekend - 4th and 5th April.
About Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source modular framework and Content Management System use from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites as the recently launched recovery.gov website.
From wikipedia, 450,000 users accounts have been created on Drupal.org. And since last year, core downloads more than doubled to 200k/month.
Drupal has a dynamic community. More than 1400 people attended the last DrupalCon in Washington DC (USA), a 4 day conference which had more than 100 sessions. Moreover, 2000 people have a developer account and contribute to the growth of the community.
To know more about Drupal :
Dries Buytaert Blog – creator of Drupal -, you will find also proposal of books and videos for both mainstream and technical audience for training, understanding, development.
Visit the Drupal Website, for any queries about it.
RDF in Drupal
The video “RDFa and Drupal” shows examples and use-cases about having embedded RDFa representation of Drupal Structure.
Many RDF modules have been developed for Drupal 6, including three which were developped at DERI:
The SIOC module which allows community data from a Drupal website to be exported in RDF using the SIOC vocabulary.
The RDF CCK module which allows site administrators to map each content type, node title, node body and CCK field to an RDF term (class or property)
The RDF external vocabulary importer module . It will cache any external RDF vocabulary in Drupal, and expose its classes and properties to other modules.
According to the statistics available on drupal.org, 1102 sites had installed the core RDF API module in Drupal 6.
Drupal 7, announced for 2010, will see RDF baked in its core. If you want to know more about the Roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7, visit the Drupal Website.
A few developers of the Drupal community will gather at DERI in May during the event titled “ RDF Sprint” in order to integrate RDF in drupal 7. The dates are to be decided soon.
Drupalcamp - 4th and 5th April 2009
More than 60 people attented the DrupalCamp Galway. Mix of newbies and developers.
On the Saturday, the event included presentations from experienced Drupal developers. Two tracks were defined. The newbies sessions aimed to give an introduction to Drupal and to learn entire website development process from start to finish. Specific topics were presented such as “Documentation”, “Building a site with Drupal”, and to the more advanced “what's new in Drupal 7”, “Security in Drupal”.
At 5pm started the challenge, during 24hours, 2 groups of Drupal developers worked on building 2 real working Drupal sites for 2 good causes. The two winners are :
Among other speakers, Addison Berry, head of the Drupal documentation team, was visiting from the US. She gave a presentation about the Drupal Documentation and explained also the need to get more people involved in it. To know more about it.
On Flickr, few photos of this event.
Upcoming events : The next DrupalCon - official twice-yearly conference - will be hold in Paris, France in early September.
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