The last few weeks have been pretty eventful for the semantic web in Drupal.

Lin Clark and I wrote a couple of articles for the IBM developerWorks explaining what it is possible to achieve with Drupal 7 and the recent developments in core and contrib. They are pretty detailed and will be useful materials for newbies willing to learn how to use the Semantic Web technologies in Drupal 7:

Today was the last day of the main conference at DrupalCon San Francisco. Lin and I gave a presentation on RDF in Drupal 7. Dries had given a brief update of RDF in Drupal 7 core in his keynote.

The upcoming Drupal 7 will have Semantic Web technology built in - any content that users create in a Drupal installation can be embedded as RDFa into a Drupal page. In other words, what Drupal 7 does is publish conventional Drupal content to the Semantic Web. This is great news for publishers who have content which want to port their content from the conventional "eye-ball Web" to the Semantic Web.