Mr Plums Paradise: opening the walled garden of linked data
Mr Plum's Paradise is a childrens book about linked data, published in 1976. It tells the story of Mr Plum, a budding gardner, who convinces his neighbours to knock down the walls between their gardens to create a paradise of interconnected gardens. The book is full of ontologies, shared data sets, and other oddities, in an unusual parallel to the coming of linked data 30 years later...
The first half of this session introduces you to the basics of linked data, how to publish a range of linked data types from Drupal, the business case for publishing linked data, and other necessary background to get you up and running.
The second half will show you how to consume and exploit linked data from your own Drupal project using EasyRDF (part of core in 8.x), strategies for integrating linked data into your project, and some of the pitfalls you might encounter.
Prior experience using RDF or similar semantic technologies is not required, however some PHP familiarity and an understanding of the basic concepts of Linked Data may be useful for some examples.
This session is applicable primarily to Drupal 7 & 8, however Drupal 6 users will also get some love.
Also, we'll read a children's book.
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Christopher Skene is the maintainer of the EasyRDF and Linked Data Tools modules for Drupal 7, and has been working linked data technologies since 2007.
Comments
Would be interesting to see samples of using RDF to pull related content from dbpedia
That is, in fact, one of the topics I will be speaking on. I've done work on this recently and can discuss some of the issues with using DBPedia as a data source.
I like the sound of this talk. Sure, the internet was developed by technical whizzes but it has transformed everybody's lives and everybody can participate in it. If the semantic web is to be successful we need to see how it can do the same, and the example of Mr Plum sounds like it offers pointers.