Drupal 7 (alpha), the latest major release of the popular open source CMS, includes a lot of features for web publishers interested in implementing Semantic Web Technologies.
In May of 2009, Google announced the support for RDFa as part of its Rich Snippet program. At the time, the work for integrating Semantic Web technologies into the next release of Drupal’s core had already started. In May, 2010 at DrupalCon San Francisco, Dries Buytaert – creator and project lead of Drupal – reaffirmed the community’s strong support for RDF in Drupal 7 by showing what sort of applications this will enable. A few days later, Facebook announced the Open Graph protocol, a new protocol based on RDFa which allows for turning any webpage into a rich object in a social graph. Clearly, the future is in the Semantic Web. This webinar presents some brief history about semantics in Drupal and the various facets of RDF and RDFa which are available today as part of Drupal 7 alpha.
At the SemTech 2010 Conference in June, Stéphane Corlosquet, Lin Clark, Alex Passant and Axel Polleres will present a hands-on Tutorial on “How to build Linked Data sites with Drupal 7 and RDFa.“
Relevant links mentioned during the webinar:

• – Drupal project
• – Download latest Drupal 7
• – Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal! paper (PDF)
• – RDF browsers:
  • – Sindice inspector (including a bookmarlet to add to your browser)
  • – URI burner
  • – Tabulator
• – Who uses Drupal:
  • – The White House
  • – New York Observer
  • – more
• – Semantic web and Drupal video presented at DrupalCon San Francisco keynote.
• – Semantic Drupal for all news on Semantic Web in Drupal and how to get started with RDF in Drupal.
• – Follow Stéphane Corlosquet on twitter to keep up to date with the latest developments.