Semantify Your Web Apps with Triplify
Alright, “semantify” may not be an actual word, but you can probably guess at its meaning: “add a semantic layer to.” In this case, we’re looking at a small plugin called Triplify that reveals the semantic structures of web applications by converting their database content into semantic formats.
The Triplify plugin generates database views by performing a small number of queries against the web app’s database. These views are then converted into a semantic format – either RDF, JSON, or Linked Data representations. Once in this format, data can then be shared and accessed on the Semantic Web.
To install the plugin, you download and extract the folder containing the script into your web app. Then download a Triplify configuration matching your Web application or create a new one.
There’s an example file to get started with, or you can use one of the files already available, like this one for WordPress or this one for Joomla.
Finally, integrate the plugin into your web application. (More info here).
Once the web app has been “triplified,” search engines can better evaluate the content, and semantic search engines, like Sindice, SWSE, or Swoogle can do the same.
But even better, once Triplify is installed, your web app becomes easily mashable with other web data sources via a tool like Yahoo! Pipes, for example.
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