Data Mashups with Drupal
Data Mashups with Drupal
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There are now many tools for rapidly and efficiently bringing large amounts of external data into Drupal, and visualizing different specific combinations of the data - "data mashups" - with Views and other Drupal UI tools.
For example:
Solr and Sphinx can now be combined to effectively index large amounts of data either external or internal to Drupal, which can then be viewed and/or stored in Drupal.
Feeds and feed-related tools, such as PubSubHubBub can be used to bring RSS, Atom, CSV, etc. data into Drupal.
QueryPath and other XPath or XSLT-based tools can be used to process large amounts of external or internal XML or XHTML data in Drupal.
Migrate and other data migration tools can be used to move large amounts of external data into a Drupal system, where they can later be mashed up internally using Views and other Drupal UI tools.
This BoF will include brief (10 minutes or so) presentations by people actually using or developing these tools, with a focus on using them to create data mashups of external or internal data with Drupal.