Phase2 OpenPublish Presentation SF SemWeb Meetup, April 28, 2009

Drupal, Calais & the Semantic Web

Prepared by Frank Febbraro, CTO & Presented by Jeff Walpole, CEO

Introductions (and sizing each other up)

Raise your hand if you are a… Technologist? Journalist? SemHead?

Raise your hand if you use or have used Drupal?

Calais API?

Lets play word association… Linked data RDF SPARQL GRDDL

Publishing tech Phase2 is working on

CMS frameworks

Drupal & Java Development

Taxonomy solutions

Geo-tagging & Mapping

Charting & Graphing Data

Semantic Web integration

Open Data/APIs

Topic Hubs

Publishing workflow

Feed Syndication

Buzz and topic trend monitoring

Community collaboration sites

Multi-site & virtual site CMS architecture

An open source CMS installation specifically for publishers –

called OpenPublish

DrupalDrupal

We heart Drupal

Why We use Drupal for CMS Performance/Reliability: Dozens of

major publishers turn to Drupal and tens of thousands of high traffic sites because it is an enterprise class platform

Ease/Expense of Implementation: As one of the leading shops developing for this platform, we can be as efficient as anyone and this platform is our preferred technology.

Evolving Technology Extensibility: You need something modular/extensible that allows you to add new features easily and we know this is possible with Drupal.

Easier Modular Enhancements: Drupal's architecture is modular and integrates well without requiring customization to core components that would make them difficult to maintain.

P2 Expertise: Our entire development staff of 12+ developers can support you on Drupal and we are known as one of the top firms in the country.

Large Community Support: You need a community that is active, robust, responsive and growing. We are involved in the Drupal community and have an ear to the ground on features and changes that would affect your site.

Easy Staff Training: The Drupal CMS is intuitive and we are well versed in training others to use it. To support training, there are numerous videos, online tutorials, local classes and even books on how it works.

Decreased Support Costs: Publishers find they can do a lot more themselves and when they do need help, the time is a fraction of what a proprietary CMS would cost for similar changes.

Drupal Semantic Modules

rdf, rdf cck, foaf, relations, sparql, sioc, calais collection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4WgTRIRoa0

The Calais API

connect. everything.

How does Calais work?

1.Categorizes and metatags the people, places, companies, facts and events in your content to make it ‘machine-readable,’ and returns that metadata to you.

2.Makes connections between the entities in your content and related data in Wikipedia, GeoNames, the IMDB, Shopping.com and more

3.Empowers you to share your metadata with search engines, news aggregators, ‘related stories’ applications and others in the content ecosystem.

<Topic>M&A</Topic>

<Acquisition offset="494" length="130"> <Company_Acquirer>Reuters</Company_Acquirer> <Company_Acquired>ClearForest Ltd.</Company_Acquired> <Status>Planned</Status> </Acquisition>

<Company>Reuters</Company>

<Company>ClearForest Ltd.</Company> Reuters Announced the Acquisition of ClearForest

New York - April 30, 2007

Reuters, the global information company, has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ClearForest Ltd., a privately held provider of Text Analytics solutions, whose tagging platform and analytical products allow clients to derive precise business information from huge amounts of textual content.

ClearForest has received sufficient shareholder approval to complete the transaction, which is expected to close in approximately 30 days, subject to customary closing conditions. The financial terms were not disclosed. Reuters plans to retain and continue to work with the existing management team and their highly skilled workforces in the US and Israel. It also plans to continue to support existing products and customers.

Reuters believes that search will be a pivotal element to the future of how financial information is sourced and consumed. As part of its drive into this space, Reuters has created a new strategic group and appointed Gerry Campbell, who will oversee the integration of ClearForest and drive this innovation.

<Product>Text Analytic Solution </Product>

<Company>ClearForest Ltd.</Company>


<Country>United States</Country>

<Country>Israel</Country>


<Person>Gerry Campbell</Person>

<ManagementChange offset="2789" length="92"> <Person>Gerry Campbell</Person> <Company>Reuters</Company> <Action>Enters</Position> </ManagementChange>

What Would that Look Like (in code)?

DrupalDrupal

Calais for DrupalCalais for Drupal

Calais Collection

What does Calais for Drupal Look Like?

•suggest terms allowing full user control of the tagging (think of del.icio.us recommending tags).

Calais Terms or Taxonomy Terms?

configure per node type

save. magic happens.

Too much information? Limit it.

autodiscovery, what’s that mean?

RDF for your nodes

LOOK AWAY!!!!!!!

DrupalDrupal


More Like ThisMore Like This Topic HubsTopic HubsGeoGeo

More Like This

automatically prefill from Calais

configure threshold

relevant on-site content to browse

relevant news from the web

DrupalDrupal



self organizing content

create a contextual expression

configure plugins (or define your own)

tell your story

show content in various contexts

they are panels, so rearrange

DrupalDrupal


Linked DataLinked Data


Linked Data

Linked Data Datasets

Linked Datait’s all about the URIs

Drupal: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Drupal

Washington DC: http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/f497898f-2b9b-7cda-ec7b-85d896acbe3e

Calais linked data for humans

Calais linked data RDF

hello dbpedia (for geeks)

Calais geo config

on a map, but wait, there’s more

dbpedia data (or other sources)

semantic company data

company data from dbpedia

Calais URI for Toyota

Get the next link to follow

SPARQL query to get the data from DBPedia

render it to html, voilà

DrupalDrupal




MarmosetMarmoset

Marmoset: microformats for search agents

The Big Picture – OpenPublish

DrupalDrupal




MarmosetMarmoset

http://opensourceopenminds.com/openpublish

Enough Talk - lets see a demo…

Phase2 OpenPublish Presentation SF SemWeb Meetup, April 28, 2009

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