This document is about a Drupal Ireland Meetup on January 13th 2007. It was presented by John Breslin from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. The presentation introduced SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), a semantic web module for Drupal that publishes information about online communities and user data in a machine-readable format. It also provided background on the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, the current syntactic web, and the vision for the semantic web.

1. Drupal Ireland Meetup
Introduction / Drupal SIOC Module
John Breslin
13th January 2007
john.breslin@deri.org
http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/
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2. What is DERI?
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute
• Established at NUI Galway in June 2003
• One of the largest “Semantic Web” research institutes
• About €25 million in funding from EU FP6, SFI, EI
• Now has 80 members (staff and students)
• Three main research clusters:
– Semantic Web
– Semantic Web Services
– E-Learning with Semantics
• About 100 project partners
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3. Who am I?
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