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Connecting to the Web of Data: Using Drupal’s Semantic Web modules

Lin Clark 3 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Bring in data from other sites—Wikipedia content, New York Times historical contnet, and much more—and expose your site’s information for others to reuse. With the Semantic Web, you can use the Web as your CMS.

Bring in data from other sites—Wikipedia content, New York Times historical contnet, and much more—and expose your site’s information for others to reuse. With the Semantic Web, you can use the Web as your CMS.

In this session, we will demonstrate how you can use the power of the Semantic Web to expose your site’s information and reuse information from other sites. We will also provide links as we go along to screencasts we have produced to guide you step-by-step in setting up the modules.

Topics covered:
Getting your content ready for reuse using RDF UI and SPARQL Endpoint

Additional Presenters:  scor
Resources:  Stéphane Corlosquet Lin Clark

Sanitary migrations with XMLRPC

J-P Stacey 18 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Migrating full Drupal versions can be hard and unearth horrors. If you just want content, users etc, XMLRPC could be for you.

This is a case study of the work involved migrating a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6.

If your D5 site only has only core modules enabled, migration is pretty straightforward. Start adding contributed modules to the mix and - as long as you don't use unknown or unsupported code - you can still migrate with a minimum amount of pain. But what about when:

  • The migration will seriously break the theme
  • The client decides that migration is a good time to completely re-theme
  • ... and add new functionality