linked data context strategy
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Presentation to open data weekTRANSCRIPT
Research and Development BBC MMXIII
A Linked Data Context Strategyfor the BBC
Michael Smethurst, BBC Internet Research and Future Services
With thanks to Yves Raimond, Tristan Ferne, Olivier Thereaux, Paul Rissen
Research and Development BBC MMXIII
Why Linked Data?
1. On the web content needs context to be useful
2. The BBC has data on its output but not on the subjects of its output
3. Commercial data is usually modelled at the wrong level (saleable items)
4. Commercial data doesn’t give you the freedom to make your own APIs on top
5. Using inference minimises workload
“Inform, Educate and Entertain”
George Orwell, 1940s
On the Web since 1994 / 1995
Linked data
1. Consuming linked data
2. Managing linked data
3. Publishing linked data
1000 ~ 1500 programmes
~ 750 news articles
every day
Loose coupling via shared identifiers
Linked data as experience prism
Principle #1:The web is our CMS
1. Consuming linked data
2. Managing linked data
3. Publishing linked data
Annotate once, infer and re-use
1. Consuming linked data
2. Managing linked data
3. Publishing linked data
Principle #2:Our web site is our API
Generating data from content
Automated Tagging+Speaker recognition
of a very large audio archive
How do we answer…
Which radio programmes interviewed Nelson Mandela in 1990?
How can I find a picture of a relative in a library’s photo archive?
Was my music used in the background of that TV programme?
Thank you.
Questions to
@fantasticlife