[SigLT-L] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Embedding Linked Data Invisibly into Web Pages: Strategies and Workflows for Publishing with RDFa

[Cynthia Hodgson]

Join NISO and DCMI for the fourth in their joint webinar series.

Webinar: Embedding Linked Data Invisibly into Web Pages: Strategies and
Workflows for Publishing with RDFa 
Date: October 24, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time)
Event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/publishing_with_RDFa/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

As described in the April NISO/DCMI webinar by Dan Brickley, schema.org is a
search-engine initiative aimed at helping webmasters use structured data
markup to improve the discovery and display of search results. Drupal 7
makes it easy to markup HTML pages with schema.org terms, allowing users to
quickly build websites with structured data that can be understood by Google
and displayed as Rich Snippets.

Improved search results are only part of the story, however. Data-bearing
documents become machine-processable once you find them. The subject matter,
important facts, calendar events, authorship, licensing, and whatever else
you might like to share become there for the taking. Sales reports, RSS
feeds, industry analysis, maps, diagrams and process artifacts can now
connect back to other data sets to provide linkage to context and related
content. The key to this is the adoption standards for both the data model
(RDF) and the means of weaving it into documents (RDFa). Drupal 7 has become
the leading content platform to adopt these standards.

This webinar will describe how RDFa and Drupal 7 can improve how
organizations publish information and data on the Web for both internal and
external consumption. It will discuss what is required to use these features
and how they impact publication workflow. The talk will focus on high-level
and accessible demonstrations of what is possible. Technical people should
learn how to proceed while non-technical people will learn what is possible.

SPEAKERS

Brian Sletten (Bosatsu Consulting) is a liberal arts-educated software
engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning
technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a
security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and
operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the
online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial
domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as network
matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and
Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the
College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and
lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Stéphane Corlosquet (Software Engineer and Drupal Developer at MIND
Informatics) has been a driving force in incorporating Semantic Web
capabilities into the core of the Drupal Content Management System. He holds
a master's degree specializing in Semantic Web from the Digital Enterprise
Research Institute (DERI), Ireland, and has published widely read papers and
technical publications, including two chapters in the book, Definitive Guide
to Drupal 7. Stéphane has worked as the head of IT and Web development for
Ici Formation and Eco Innovation and currently works at MassGeneral
Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), MGH, as a Software Engineer
developing the Science Collaboration Framework, a Drupal-based distribution
for building online communities of researchers in biomedecine.

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative, has recently co-chaired the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working
Group and the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on October 24, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI
members and students.

Can’t make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the
recorded archive for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/publishing_with_RDFa/

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512