Ben Melançon on RDF & Core patches
Ben Melançon of the Agaric Design Collective talks about his work on the Science Collaboration Framework, which is a system that utilizes RDF to facilitate scientific debate and collaboration. Ben also mentions PD Online Research 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 aka "scor" is still working on the RDF core module patch, and there are a number other pending RDF-related patches
Another issue that was just committed this morning was Converting Taxonomy to Field API.
Finally, a long-standing pending issue that people have wanted has been to kill the profile module and Convert Profile module to Field API, which is another pending issue for Drupal 7.