data strategies - drupal decision makers training
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About the speakers
● Stéphane Corlosquet● 6 years with Drupal● Drupal core maintainer (RDF)● Drupal Security Team member● Co-authored the
Definitive Guide to Drupal 7● Co-maintain RDF Extensions,
SPARQL, schema.org● Member of the RDFa WG
Drupal
● Content Management System
● Non-developers can build sites and publish content
● Control panels instead of code
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Building a Drupal site
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Building a Drupal site
● Create the content types you need
Blog, article, wiki, forum, polls, image, video, podcast, e-commerce... (be creative)
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Building a Drupal site
● Create the fields you want
Date, tags, image, file attachments, references to other nodes, ratings, location, comments...
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Content types and Fields
Content types and Fields
Manage your display
Manage your display
● Display Suite– extra fields, layouts, search results, etc.
● Panels– more powerful but more complex
Manage your display
Manage your display
Manage your display
Display multiple nodes: listings
● Views– Most popular contributed module
– Display content in lists, tables, grids
– Nodes, users, terms, images, remote content too!
● Applications– Table of content
– Directory
– Photo albums
– ...
Display listings
Faceted Search
Data silos
Open your data
● Make your data understandable by machines
● Share it on the Web● Standards
Vision of the Semantic Web
● Universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange
Vision of the Semantic Web
● Decentralized information
Rich Snippets
Why Structured Data in HTML
● Help machines extract relevant data from HTML
● Can make use of this data in amazing ways (e.g. enhanced search results)
Schema.org
Schema.org
● Describe the type of your content (Person, Event, Recipe, Product, Book, Movie, etc.)
– 290 types and counting
● Each type has a set of properties– Common properties: name, description, image, url
– Specific properties depending on the type (see type page on schema.org)
– 240 properties and counting
Schema.org
Rich Snippet testing tool
● http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Drupal 7 and RDF
● Contributed module for more features● RDF Extensions
● Serialization formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples
● SPARQL● Expose Drupal RDF data in a SPARQL Endpoint
● SPARQL Views● Display remote RDF data in Drupal using SPARQL
● JSON-LD● Expose Drupal RDF data as JSON-LD (CORS-enabled)
● Features and packaging● Build distributions / deployment workflow