Drupal has a variety of tools for working with RDF. These are best supported in 
Drupal 7, but there are also some tools for Drupal 6, the version that your 
school — except for the library — uses for their website.

Thanks,

Cary

On Aug 6, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Michael Beccaria <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page and host 
> it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page that I want to 
> improve upon is providing live or near live information on technology 
> availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That data resides on my ILS 
> server and I thought it might be a good time to upgrade the bubble gum and 
> duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data service that 
> would provide that availability information to the web server.
> 
> The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated information 
> out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web etc. and I'm looking for 
> a simple guide to creating a very simple linked data service with php or 
> python or whatever. Does such a resource exist? Any advice on where to start?
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Beccaria
> Systems Librarian
> Head of Digital Initiative
> Paul Smith's College
> 518.327.6376
> [email protected]
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