--- title: "Ben Melançon on RDF & Core patches" url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/ben-melanon-on-rdf-core-patches" type: episode date: 2009-10-08 updated: 2014-04-09 --- # Ben Melançon on RDF & Core patches # Ben Melançon on RDF & Core patches *Podcast episode player* [Ben Melançon](http://drupal.org/user/64383) of the [Agaric Design Collective](https://agaric.coop/) talks about his work on the [Science Collaboration Framework,](http://sciencecollaboration.org/) which is a system that utilizes RDF to facilitate scientific debate and collaboration. Ben also mentions [PD Online Research](http://www.pdonlineresearch.org/) as another Drupal site that is utilizing RDF. Ben talks about a number of patches that are still being worked on during the Drupal 7 code slush period. In particular, [Stéphane Corlosquet](https://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-18-st%C3%A9phane-corlosquet-semantic-web-drupal) aka "scor" is still working on the [RDF core module](http://drupal.org/node/493030) patch, and there are a number other pending [RDF-related patches](http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=RDF+%23&status=Open&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All) Another issue that was just committed this morning was [Converting Taxonomy to Field API](http://drupal.org/node/412518). Finally, a long-standing pending issue that people have wanted has been to kill the profile module and [Convert Profile module to Field API,](http://drupal.org/node/301071) which is another pending issue for Drupal 7. [Download Audio](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/621/DrupalVoices058.mp3)