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A week in Ecuador - Viva el Drupal Latino! 30 Mar 2013 | 12:35 am
Earlier this month I spent a week in Ecuador. It was my first time in Latin America. I wasn't sure what to expect given that I don't speak Spanish, but I must say I had a blast, it was a lot of fun! I...
Log in with WebID and get to comment without moderation 14 Feb 2013 | 01:54 am
Last week I released a new alpha version of the WebID module for Drupal, and today I've just added a first integration with the Drupal Rules modules allowing to trigger customizable actions whenever s...
Schema.org Rich Snippets with Drupal 7 and RDFa 1 Oct 2011 | 04:34 am
Back in June, Google, Bing and Yahoo! announced a joint effort to build a schema for describing content the web. The first schema.org workshop took place last week in Mountain View, CA. I had the chan...
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7: Semantic Web, Security and so much more 23 Aug 2011 | 05:39 am
I’ve been quiet about my involvement in this daunting project, but now that the book is finally complete and has hit the book stores, it’s time to talk about it. It all started more than two years ago...
Can microdata support multiple vocabularies? 11 Jun 2011 | 09:13 am
In Drupal 7 we often use multiple types to describe pieces of content, for example a node is a sioc:Post and a foaf:Document, a comment a sioc:Post and a sioct:Comment. This is useful when you want to...
Background research work leading to RDF in Drupal 7 released as part of my Master's thesis 2 May 2011 | 01:07 pm
Today it's about time to make my M.Sc. thesis available online. The review process took a long while, but I finally graduated from DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway last October. That's mor...
The Open Graph protocol and Drupal 27 May 2010 | 09:44 am
A couple of days after Dries Buytaert gave his keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco and reaffirmed his support for the Semantic Web in Drupal, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced at the f8 dev...
RDFa in Drupal 7: last call for feedback before alpha release 13 Jan 2010 | 01:59 am
The first alpha release of Drupal 7 will be created next Friday Jan 15th. We've already incorporated most of the feedback we received from the semweb community so far, but I wanted to give the communi...
Status of RDF in Drupal (November 09) and wrap up of ISWC2009 3 Nov 2009 | 09:51 am
I had the pleasure to give a presentation of the paper "Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal!" at ISWC2009 last, and I was very honored we won the Best Semantic Web in Use Paper award! The 30 m...
Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal! 23 Oct 2009 | 01:03 am
Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal! is the title of the paper I will be presenting next week at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) in Washington, DC. I wrote it at the ...