Practical Semantic Web and Why You Should Care - DrupalCon DC 2009

Practical Semantic Web (and why you should care) Boris Mann • http://bmannconsulting.com Presented at DC DrupalCon 2009 Saturday, March 7, 2009

Outline What is the Semantic Web? Open Data! Why should you care? Where does Drupal come in? What’s next? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Before we begin… Saturday, March 7, 2009

Before we begin… How many people in the room are academics? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Before we begin… How many people in the room are academics? How many people know what RDF stands for / is? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Before we begin… How many people in the room are academics? How many people know what RDF stands for / is? How many people are already sick of the term Web 3.0? Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Semantic Web… Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Semantic Web… …is for propeller heads with PhDs Saturday, March 7, 2009

Semantic Web Saturday, March 7, 2009

Semantic Web More meaning to the web Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF Resource Description Framework Triples, subject-predicate-object expressions … Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF Resource Description Framework Triples, subject-predicate-object expressions … Math is hard, let’s go shopping! Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Apple is a company Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Apple is a company http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Apple is a company http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Inc Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Apple is a company http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Inc http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Corps Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF, basically Apple is a fruit Apple is a company http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Inc http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_Corps http://dbpedia.org/resource/Apple_River Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF is Robot Food Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDF and RDFa [RDFa] provides a set of On October 14, 2008 RDFa XHTML attributes to augment visual data with became a W3C machine-readable hints. Recommendation (a Web standard) …turn the existing human- visible text and links into Embed RDF directly in XHTML machine-readable data without repeating content. Saturday, March 7, 2009

The link has a ﬂavor Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDFa is Robot Food Saturday, March 7, 2009

RDFa Screencast by bhuga / scor Saturday, March 7, 2009

Open Data! Saturday, March 7, 2009

Recovery.gov Saturday, March 7, 2009

Apps for Democracy: District CTO Vivek Kundra “While the immediate goal of the Applications for Democracy contest is to develop innovative software to present District data, its long-term goals are broader,” said District CTO Vivek Kundra. “By making government data easy for everyone to access and use, the District hopes to foster citizen participation in government, drive private-sector technology innovation and growth, and build a new model for government-private sector collaboration that can help all governments address the technology challenges of today and tomorrow.” Saturday, March 7, 2009

Apps for Democracy by DevSeed Saturday, March 7, 2009

“Just” Open Have to download / import data Pure robot food - still needs programmers to make it play nice with humans Saturday, March 7, 2009

Processing is moving Saturday, March 7, 2009

Processing is moving Past: Move the data to where the processing is Saturday, March 7, 2009

Processing is moving Past: Move the data to where the processing is Future: Move the processing to where the data is Saturday, March 7, 2009

Amazon gives away free TB Amazon is storing public datasets - over 1 TB of data It actually saves them money, but it also makes their customers’ applications faster (processing next to data) Trevor O: if other hosting companies did this, then if even 2 people used it, they would save money - moving data across the LAN is cheaper than across the WAN Saturday, March 7, 2009

Read Write Web on Amazon Public Data Sets You've read, or can imagine, the impact that the ﬁrst Public Libraries had on human culture. Now imagine the opening up of not just this, but other libraries of data, so huge that economies of scale blast the project off beyond any analogy that could be drawn with our everyday experience or historical memories. It won't just be Amazon that offers up this kind of data - it will be relatively commonplace soon, we imagine. It will be like a network of libraries - for robots. Robots that go to the library frequently, read very fast and make serious use of what they've learned. Saturday, March 7, 2009

Where does Drupal come in? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Drupal is getting semantic Looks to be the ﬁrst general purpose CMS that has signiﬁcant semantic data out of the box If we ship Drupal 7 with semantic data turned on out of the box (i.e. content you create is automatically marked up), will probably be the most widely deployed semantic platform 200K downloads / month plus lots of people creating content = lots of semantic data from the bottom up Saturday, March 7, 2009

Linking Open Data …the data sets consist of over two billion RDF triples, which are interlinked by around 3 million RDF links (Oct. 2007) Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bottoms up Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bottoms up Can Drupal help enable the growth of the semantic web from the bottom up? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bottoms up Can Drupal help enable the growth of the semantic web from the bottom up? 200,000 downloads x 10 links per page Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bottoms up Can Drupal help enable the growth of the semantic web from the bottom up? 200,000 downloads x 10 links per page = 2,000,000 RDF links Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bottoms up Can Drupal help enable the growth of the semantic web from the bottom up? 200,000 downloads x 10 links per page = 2,000,000 RDF links (per month) Saturday, March 7, 2009

Drupal everywhere Saturday, March 7, 2009

Why should you care? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Views across the Web Remember the ﬁrst time you had your mind blown when building views? What if you could operate on any data, anywhere on the web, with a similar interface? That’s why you should care about the Semantic Web - it enables this This is where I mention SPARQL Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money What does “Blog” stand for? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money What does “Blog” stand for? Better Listings On Google Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money What does “Blog” stand for? Better Listings On Google CMS? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money What does “Blog” stand for? Better Listings On Google CMS? Content Made Semantic Saturday, March 7, 2009

Or maybe you care about money What does “Blog” stand for? Better Listings On Google CMS? Content Made Semantic Semantic “land rush” will happen Saturday, March 7, 2009

What’s next? Saturday, March 7, 2009

Some examples RDF, RDF CCK, RDF evoc, SPARQL, etc. MOAT - Meaning of a Tag Exhibit - complex mashups and visualization with no coding or theming …go forth and experiment and build today Saturday, March 7, 2009

Exhibit Examples http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/senate/senate.html Saturday, March 7, 2009

Mission: Possible Dries said “Every movement needs a mission” Saturday, March 7, 2009

Mission: Possible Dries said “Every movement needs a mission” Drupal’s mission is to help evolve the web Saturday, March 7, 2009

How do we do it? We pioneered aggregation, multi user blogging, taxonomy and more on a platform that runs anywhere Help make Drupal 7 the ﬁrst semantic enabled CMS Not just “the ﬁrst” - but the one that just works, while you’re building powerful, usable sites Saturday, March 7, 2009

How do we do it? We pioneered aggregation, multi user blogging, taxonomy and more on a platform that runs anywhere Help make Drupal 7 the ﬁrst semantic enabled CMS Not just “the ﬁrst” - but the one that just works, while you’re building powerful, usable sites Kickstart the semantic web from the bottom up Saturday, March 7, 2009

FINIS Questions? Comments? Discussion? Saturday, March 7, 2009

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