mapping the guardian's tags to the web of data
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Presentation given by Peter Martin & Martin Belam at Online Information 2010 in London, showing how the Guardian applies tag metadata to content, derives value from that metadata, and has begun to map Guardian tags to the linked open data ecosphere.TRANSCRIPT
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Mapping the Guardian's tags to the web of data
Peter Martin & Martin Belam
Guardian News & MediaNovember 2010
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Our content model relies on tags...
...which are not anywhere near as boring as you think
Keywords
Contributor
Series
Publication
Tone
Article
Video
Audio
Gallery
Cartoon
Tags Content
Keywords
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Every piece of content carries aselection of hand-picked tags
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They are added during content production
...and the system suggests them as you type
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There is also a tag browser in the CMS
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And a search so that you can 'Batch Tag'
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There is an admin interface to manage tags...
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...and generate reports on what has been created
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On the site they give us related links & tag pages
(OK, that is admittedly a little bit boring)
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They allow us to cross-promote content
A film review for "The Damned United" is inamongst the football stories
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And we can create 'combiner' pages with them...
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...many of which are more useful than bullfighting+vuvuzelas
This page is assembled automatically by combiningthe 'review' tone with the 'books' section
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Tags are used to place editorial components
Stories tagged with 'Apple' in the Technology section display recent tweets on the topic by Guardian contributors
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And to customise commercial components
Adverts that appear in the Guardian Jobs slotare tuned by the tags applied to article content
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Topical navigation on the iPhone
The Guardian iPhone app uses tags to providelateral navigation into topics
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Topical navigation on the iPhone
The Guardian iPhone app uses tags to providelateral navigation into topics
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Trending on the iPhone
The iPhone app also examines the tags withthe most activity, to produce the 'trending' topic index
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Tags help with search results
We use links to tag pages as results for synonymsand near-synonyms commonly used by readers
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Tags can go in folders
...and we can turn those folders into A-Z listsand navigation on the website
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And our tags are on Twitter
To our knowledge, they are the only bit of our informationarchitecture to have an official presence on Twitter
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Now our tags are entering the world of linked data
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Our book reviews carry ISBNs
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And our content API can be queried by ISBN
http://explorer.content.guardianapis.com/
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Our artist tag pages have MusicBrainz IDs associated with them
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And the API can be queried by MusicBrainz ID
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Why XML and JSON?
And not something a little more rich and semantic?
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Where do we go next?
Where can we get the most linked data for the least effort?What will be used in the real world?
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Mapping the Guardian's tags to the web of data
Peter Martin & Martin Belam
Guardian News & MediaNovember 2010
@currybet@guardian_tags