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"The IWMW event provides an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies and to actively participate in a number of parallel sessions."

IWMW 2010 is the fourteenth workshop. This year's theme is 'The Web in Turbulent Times'.
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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010

Parallel Session A1: RDFa from theory to practice

Title:
A1: RDFa from theory to practice
Session Tag:
#A1
Time:
Monday 12th July 2010 16:00-17:30
Facilitators:
Adrian Stevenson, Mark Dewey and Thom Bunting, UKOLN.
Abstract:
In this session we will:
  1. provide an introduction to what's happening now in Linked Data and RDFa
  2. demonstrate recent work exposing repository metadata as RDFa
  3. explain how integration of RDFa within a content management system such as Drupal can enrich semantic content - and in some cases help significantly boost search engine ranking.

Contact Details

Adrian Stevenson
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
UK
BA2 7AY
 Phone: +44 (0) 161 4454934
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 386838
Email:
Thom Bunting
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
UK
BA2 7AY
 Phone: +44 (0) 1225 386066
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 386838
Email:
Mark Dewey
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
UK
BA2 7AY
 Phone: +44 (0) 1225 383231
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 386838
Email:

Biographies

Adrian StevensonAdrian Stevenson is a project manager and technical researcher at UKOLN. He has managed the highly successful SWORD project since May 2008 and also manages the JISC Information Environment Technical Review project. Adrian represents UKOLN and JISC on various activities including Linked Data and the Semantic Web, and standards such as OAI-ORE and SWORD. Adrian has a long-standing interest in Linked Data, having presented on the subject on many occasions.

Adrian has also worked for the Learning Technology Services Team at the University of Manchester, and MIMAS, a national data centre based at the University of Manchester, on the JISC-funded JORUM project (2002-2005). Prior to this he was a Web Developer for Multimedia Services at Leeds Metropolitan University (2001-2002) and the Web Editor at King's College London (2000-2001). Adrian first studied Economics and later Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Following this he became a professional guitarist in a number of bands based in London, as well as a Sound Engineer for a number of independent artists including My Bloody Valentine.

Photo of Thom BuntingDr Thom Bunting works as Web Manager (e-Framework / Information Environment Technical Foundations) in the Software and Systems team at UKOLN. In this role he researches and evaluates innovative content management technologies, including the recent integration of RDFa within Drupal versions 6 and 7. Previously his work has included extensive leading-edge web management experience, within commercial and academic contexts.

Mark Dewey is a Systems Developer in the Software and Systems Team at UKOLN.

Materials

Please note that two of the presentations are available on the Slideshare repository and embedded below: Adrian's Stevenson's talk on RDFa From Theory to Practice and Thom Bunting's on http://www.slideshare.net/tcbukoln/semantic-content-management-consuming-and-producing-rdf-in-drupal-4796732.

RDFa From Theory to Practice
Semantic content management: consuming and producing RDF in Drupal
View more presentations from Thom Bunting

Note that although this page initially validated to the RDFa+HTML DTD once the Slideshare resource had been embedded the embedding mechanism has resulted in a failure to validate, although the page should still render correctly.