1. Data Strategies in Drupal
Stéphane Corlosquet
scorlosquet@gmail.com
Training at NYCamp 2012

2. About the speakers
● Stéphane Corlosquet
● 6 years with Drupal
● Drupal core maintainer (RDF)
● Drupal Security Team member
● Co-authored the
Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
● Co-maintain RDF Extensions,
SPARQL, schema.org
● Member of the RDFa WG

3. Drupal
● Content Management System
● Non-developers can build sites
and publish content
● Control panels instead of code
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkyah/2400889778

4. Building a Drupal site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toomuchdew/3792159077/

5. Building a Drupal site
● Create the content types
you need
Blog, article, wiki, forum, polls,
image, video, podcast, e-
commerce... (be creative)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgivar/4795856532/

6. Building a Drupal site
● Create the fields you want
Date, tags, image, file attachments,
references to other nodes, ratings,
location, comments...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skip/42288941/

7. Content types and Fields

8. Content types and Fields

9. Manage your display

10. Manage your display
● Display Suite
– extra fields, layouts, search results, etc.
● Panels
– more powerful but more complex

11. Manage your display

12. Manage your display

13. Manage your display

14. Display multiple nodes: listings
● Views
– Most popular contributed module
– Display content in lists, tables, grids
– Nodes, users, terms, images, remote content too!
● Applications
– Table of content
– Directory
– Photo albums
– ...

15. Display listings

17. Faceted Search

18. Data silos

19. Open your data
● Make your data understandable by machines
● Share it on the Web
● Standards

20. Vision of the Semantic Web
● Universal medium for data, information and
knowledge exchange

21. Vision of the Semantic Web
● Decentralized information

22. Rich Snippets

23. Google

24. Yahoo!

25. Bing

26. Why Structured Data in HTML
● Help machines extract relevant
data from HTML
● Can make use of this data in
amazing ways (e.g. enhanced
search results)

27. Schema.org

28. Schema.org
● Describe the type of your content (Person,
Event, Recipe, Product, Book, Movie, etc.)
– 290 types and counting
● Each type has a set of properties
– Common properties: name, description, image, url
– Specific properties depending on the type (see type page
on schema.org)
– 240 properties and counting

29. Schema.org

30. Rich Snippet testing tool
● http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

31. Drupal 7 and RDF
● Contributed module for more features
● RDF Extensions
● Serialization formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples
● SPARQL
● Expose Drupal RDF data in a SPARQL Endpoint
● SPARQL Views
● Display remote RDF data in Drupal using SPARQL
● JSON-LD
● Expose Drupal RDF data as JSON-LD (CORS-enabled)
● Features and packaging
● Build distributions / deployment workflow