Towards the Integration of a Research Group Website into the Web of Data Mikel Emaldi, David Buj´an, and Diego L´ opez-de-Ipi˜ na Deusto Institute of Technology - DeustoTech, University of Deusto Avda. Universidades 24, 48007, Bilbao, Spain {m.emaldi, dbujan, dipina}@deusto.es Abstract. This work describes our efforts towards making the website of our research group, namely MORElab, comply with the principles of Linked Data. As a first attempt, we have made the information related to our research publications available in RDF. Such data is published ac- cording to the Bibliographic and Dublin Core Ontologies and interlinked with instance data of the FOAF and DBLP vocabularies. Our main con- tribution has been to adapt the Joomla! CMS so that it can be used for the automatic generation of the semantic metadata about publications. 1 Introduction The Semantic Web can be seen as a large knowledge-base formed by sources that serve information as RDF (Resource Description Framework) [1] files or through SPARQL endpoints [2]. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web [3]. Today, more and more initiatives publish their data as Linked Data [4]. Although there are tools for publishing the data stored on relational databases into RDF files and for providing SPARQL endpoints like D2R Server [5] and tools for creating Linked Data interfaces from SPARQL endpoints like Pubby 1 , publishing data of a web- site as Linked Data is usually a non-trivial task. Some Content Management Systems (CMS), e.g. Drupal 2 , provide tools for publishing the data of a website as RDF. Other CMS such as RDF Tools for Wordpress 3 , allow publishing their content as RDF files. As far as we know, there is a lack of tools for publish- ing Joomla! 4 content as Linked Data despite of being the most used CMS after Wordpress 5 . On this paper, we describe our initial efforts towards migrating the information embedded in our research group’s site into the Web of Data. For that we will: 1) describe the ontological vocabularies chosen to export part of our site (concretely the publications part), 2) explain the adaptation we have 1 http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/pubby/ 2 http://drupal.org/ 3 http://bnode.org/blog/2008/01/15/rdf-tools-an-rdf-store-for-wordpress 4 http://www.joomla.org/ 5 Usage statistics at May 2011. http://trends.builtwith.com/cms