ZBW Labs - Electronic publishing

ZBW Labs as Linked Open Data

Joachim Neubert — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:04 +0000

As a laboratory for new, Linked Open Data based publishing technologies, we now develop the ZBW Labs web site as a Semantic Web Application. The pages are enriched with RDFa, making use of Dublin Core, DOAP (Description of a Project) and other vocabularies. The schema.org vocabulary, which is also applied through RDFa, should support search engine visibility.

With this new version we aim at a playground to test new possibilities in electronic publishing and linking data on the web. At the same time, it facilitates editorial contributions from project members about recent developments and allows comments and other forms of participation by web users.

As it is based on Drupal 7, RDFa is "build-in" (in the CMS core) and is easy done by configuration on a field level. Enhancements are made through the RDFx. Schema.org and SPARQL Views modules. A lot of other ready-made components in Drupal (most noteworthy the Views and the new Entity Reference modules) make it easy to provide and interlink the data items on the site. The current version of Zen theme enables the HTML 5 and the use of RDFa 1.1, and permits a responsive design for smartphones and pads.

ZBW Labs Website

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Economics Taxonomies in Drupal

Joachim Neubert — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:18 +0000

The Drupal economics_taxonomies module can be used in Drupal installations to gain access to well established vocabularies for economics over the web. Economics contents curated in Drupal (journal articles, blog entries, etc.) can be indexed using terms from this vocabularies, without a need to install them locally.

The module uses the Web Taxonomy, another Drupal module, to integrate these vocabularies as taxonomies into Drupal. Other than the core taxonomy module, Web Taxonomy records IDs (normally URIs) of terms, and thus allows an update from the taxonomy source. The plugin architecture of Web Taxonomy module allows building other modules to add data sources/vocabularies. The only prerequisite is that the sources provide a web services interface.

Based on Web Services for Economics, Economics Taxonomies implements such plugins. It currently is in sandbox state and supports

STW Thesaurus for Economics
Scholars from economics and neighboring fields, a subset of the German personal name authority file (part of GND)

and allows for linking to the respective resources. Since Drupal publishes these links in RDFa, it makes a Drupal site part of the large LOD cloud.

Name: Economics Taxonomies in Drupal Short Description: Making Web Services for Economics available as Drupal Web Taxonomies Homepage: http://drupal.org/sandbox/jneubert/1447918 Git Repository:

http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/jneubert/1447918.git

Developer: Joachim Neubert Categories: Electronic publishing Drupal Thesaurus Project thumbnail: Created: 2012-02 Project Status: Experimental

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ZBW Labs Website

nbt-admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:59:20 +0000

ZBW Labs Website is a semantically enriched directory of ZBW Labs Projects. Labs projects range from small showcases, which may or may not be part of a larger project, to full-fleged applications in beta state.

The new ZBW Labs website is based on Drupal 7 and uses RDFa, which is part of Drupal Core. Used vocabularies are Dublin Core Terms (dc), Description of a Project (doap) und Schema.org (schema).

Name: ZBW Labs Website Short Description: ZBW Labs projects exposed as Linked Open Data Homepage: http://zbw.eu/labs Developer: Joachim Neubert Categories: Electronic publishing Drupal Web 2.0 Linked data Project thumbnail: Created: 2012-04 Project Status: Beta

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