Integrating Drupal with a Triple Store:

A New Chapter for Open Data

Barry Norton, Solutions Architect

Ontotext (UK), London

SemWeb Meet-up, DC, April 2013

A New Chapter for Open Data

Genesis of Semantics-driven Publishing

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Semantics-driven Publishing Scaled Up

Much larger scope:

• 200+ Countries

• 400-500

Disciplines

• 10 000+ Athletes

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• 10 000+ Athletes

Architecting a production deployment of

semantic publishing in finance

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Drupal• Existing

semantics concentrate on RDFa from internal model

• Depends on arc2 library:library:

– No SPARQL 1.1

– Low scalability

– No upward migration path for performance and resilience

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Drupal for semantics-enhanced

publishing• RESTful

calls via

SPARQL

• Data

beyond beyond

entity

model

enhances

pages

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Sesame

Example Source Data

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Example Source Data

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Example Enhanced Content

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Example Enhanced Content

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