Semantic Search - Faceted Search and Web 3.0 for Drupal

I'm really looking forward to talking tomorrow at Drupalcon. I've got a lot of information to share, looking for feedback, and a new direction clear for Semantic Search. I'm confident the FOSS community will help continue the effort of bringing Drupal content into the next generation of the web, and since I've just moved to Spain, meeting my new neighbors will be great!

Unfortunately, the beta release won't be ready for the public for the talk, although AHIRC will have what it needs (major speed improvements). Before beta, or even a 1.0, there needs to be a lot of work done.

1. A public RFC on an RDF standard for Drupal content (microformat, hybrid of ATOM, OPML, FOAF, etc)
2. A public RFC on an API for import, export, search, etc
3. Rewrite of APIs
4. Refactor, no duplication of Drupal code where it isn't needed.

Also, I didn't get to work on the YARS RDF store backend, even though some one from DERI may be there - I hope to get a chance to talk with them.

Continuing on the theme of unachieved goals, there is still no online demo here. The challenges were
- inconsistencies in RDF data I was trying to import - and not enough structured drupal content to import
- not enough CCK (structured ) Drupal content here to index (I don't support Blogs, just CCK in Semantic Search to this point - without taxonomy you just have.... RSS ;) )
- trouble running Java inside a very memory constrained VPS

But there's lots to cover at the talk besides the release, and the people are going to be interesting. It's also going to be great to see some CivicActions folks as well.