Any tutorials for using the RDF?

[Guest wotg]

Hi there.

 

About a week ago I spent a few hours trying to take a slice out of the ODP RDF for a little site of mine, Vancouver Computer Shops. I failed miserably, I'm afraid.

 

My question is this: is anyone aware of a step by step tutorial (suitable to an idiot like me) that describes the process of taking a small section of the ODP and putting it in a db? (Double points if it includes some php or other code to then render it. Triple points for a free solution.)

 

I figure that the easiest solution would be to hot link to one of the ODP mirrors, but that just doesn't seem fair to the ODP... besides, I'd like to customize the display a bit, and maybe add my own links, eventually.

 

FWIW, I have tried using ODP2DB (i think that's the name) which I couldn't quite get working - I'm not overly familiar with perl, and I don't think I ever got the CPAN modules quite right... I did make good progress using grep and a file splitter to get a small chunks of the file though.

 

Well, this is probably one of the better places to ask, so here I am. Thanks in advance for any info.

[giz]

I'm not aware of any tutorial, but there are some helpful threads further down the pages of this forum, some discussions at webmasterworld, and a list of useful comments linked from http://rodan.ncc.com/rdf/ as well (especially the "bug tracking" list). I can't help you with any further deeper technical stuff though.