Drupal and the Semantic Web: from RDF to Whitehouse.gov - SemTech2010
by Phase2 Technology on Oct 06, 2010
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Drupal and the Semantic Web: from RDF to Whitehouse.gov ...
Drupal and the Semantic Web: from RDF to Whitehouse.gov
As we usher in this era of open data in which organizations of all types are taking a queue from the administration's focus on transparency, accountability and efficiency by making raw data available to the public in platform independent formats, web CMS is rapidly becoming a useful place to showcase semantic web standards.
Meanwhile this trend is converging with a dramatic rise in the popularity of the most semantic web friendly open source CMS, Drupal which is featuring RDF as part of its core architecture. In October 2009, the official site of the President and flagship site for the administration, Whitehouse.gov re-launched on Drupal and featured some nods to semantic web technology with the addition of RDFa content and heavy use of taxonomies to drive content and search.
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Explain Phase2
Discuss the fact that Frank is not present
New agenda: less tech/more use case driven - no examples
Found OSS CMS in 2004 and Drupal in 2005
How it works on the admin side
How configuration can be controlled
How an API provides the engine through which we can develop new features
~ 2,400 active sites
~ 20%
The RDF CCK module allows site administrators to map each content type, node title, node body and CCK field to an RDF term (class or property).
Drupal 7 RDF module maintainer: Stéphane "scor" Corlosquet
Drupal 7 RDF contributor and evangelist extraordinaire: Lin Clark
Code contributors:
Mark Birbeck
Alex Bronstein
John Breslin
Benjamin Doherty
Stefan Freudenberg
Rolf Guescini
Daniel F. Kudwien
Florian Lorétan
Frédéric Marand
Benjamin Melançon
John Morahan
Drupal 7 RDF module maintainer: Stéphane "scor" Corlosquet
Drupal 7 RDF contributor and evangelist extraordinaire: Lin Clark
Code contributors:
Mark Birbeck
Alex Bronstein
John Breslin
Benjamin Doherty
Stefan Freudenberg
Rolf Guescini
Daniel F. Kudwien
Florian Lorétan
Frédéric Marand
Benjamin Melançon
John Morahan
Be pro-active in publishing to the web
Collect needs/ideas from citizens
Improve citizen services online
Be more open with information, data and policy decision making
270K+ data sets a year later in June 2010
unlocking data unlocks opportunities
public knowledge
core mission
economic opportunity
- More than scaling a website. It was scaling the delivering Drupal websites.
- Cover project details, the site itself, go over the launch, infrastructure, and what we've been doing since
- Why replace? They only had a website before, but when it was over, we provided them a platform to build on to tap into (and now participate in) the our vast community of creative problem solvers
- Due to NDA's etc. I cannot go into great detail about things.
- Thrilled that I can talk about it though
- New Media was a champion of Open Source and Drupal for whitehouse.gov.
- The team had a very clear vision of what they wanted, detailed control to tell the human interest side of the Presidency, Drupal provided that.
- New functionality and improved administrative capabilities and a platform to extend.
- Great design
- Drupal 6
- Performance patches
- Lots of contrib modules
- Custom features and integrations
- Big benefit here and a massive improvement over the original.
- Custom Solr Search integration
- Categorical filtering Media objects.
- AJAX enabled categorical browsing.
- Fallback HTML version for 508 compliance.
My desktop monitoring each web & database server the day of launch. I was looking at top, watching replication, database connections, number of apache processes, free memory, etc.
More opengov responsiveness
Great data use
More RDF???
How does this apply & what does the future hold?
- This site sets a new bar for how large scale Drupal can be deployed.
- Security, Process Review, and Scalability
- Processes are not all Drupal based, but the process is key
- As Drupal moves up market this will become more and more important
- These orgs are ready for us, but we need to be ready for them
From our work with related open government efforts, we’ve developed a framework and process for implementing sites that are compliant and forward-thinking about OGD.
Why?
Because open technology can only be used to accomplish OGD goals if it’s done correctly, responsibly, and with minimal burden on agencies.
Who will use it?
Government agency technology reps required to comply with the OGD.
To accomplish what?
Immediate help with compliance, but also proactive commitment to open government shared through open technology