guardian open platform launch event
DESCRIPTION
The Open Platform is the suite of services enabling partners to build applications with the Guardian. This is the launch event presentation given to the media, our partners, developers and friends of the Guardian on Tuesday, 10 March, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Tim BrooksManaging Director
Background
Emily Bell Director of Digital Content
Mike Bracken Director of Technology Development
Stephen DunnHead of Technology Strategy
Demos
Mat WallLead Software Architect
Tom MarshDeveloper
Simon WillisonSoftware Architect
Simon RogersEditor
Partners
Matt McAlisterHead of Guardian Developer Network
Weaving the Guardian into the
fabric of the Internet
Emily BellDirector of Digital Content
Mike BrackenDirector of Technology Development
“The international audience for guardian.co.uk has brought a new
goal within reach:
for The Guardian to become the world’s leading liberal voice”
GMG Scott Trust website
Embracing innovation
• Integration of technology into the business
• Opening up how we work with people both internally and externally
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bendodson/3336066519
Show us how to improve
Stephen DunnHead of Technology Strategy
Stephen DunnHead of technology strategy
The Open Guardian
Recent history
★ On the web since 1995
★ 1.5M pages and counting
★ 250M+ pages/month
★ 30M visitors/month
★ 3x Webby award winner
guardian.co.uk1999 - 2009
Looking back...
1995 - Guardian online
1995 - Guardian online
1996-98 - New Media Lab
1995 - Guardian online
1996-98 - New Media Lab
1995 - Guardian online
1996-98 - New Media Lab
1995 - Guardian online
1996-98 - New Media Lab
1998 - Guardian talkboards
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - RSS feeds
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - RSS feeds
1999 - Free headlines
distribution service
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - RSS feeds
1999 - Free headlines
distribution service
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - RSS feeds
1999 - Free headlines
distribution service
2001 - First weblog
1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches
1999 - Removal of registration system
1999 - RSS feeds
1999 - Free headlines
distribution service
2001 - First weblog
2001 - Ask Aristotle
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Comment is free
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Comment is free
2007 - RSS Everywhere
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Comment is free
2007 - RSS Everywhere
2007 - First partners network
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Comment is free
2007 - RSS Everywhere
2007 - First partners network
2008 - Full text RSS (with Ads)
2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign
2006 - Comment is free
2007 - RSS Everywhere
2007 - First partners network
2008 - Full text RSS (with Ads)
2008 - First hackday
Relaunch 2007-08
Relaunch 2007-08
Relaunch 2007-08
Principles
1. Permanent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/
• “A cool URI is one that does not change” Tim Berners-Lee 1998
1. Permanent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/
• “A cool URI is one that does not change” Tim Berners-Lee 1998
• 1.5 million resources redirected to new scheme
1. Permanent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/
2. Addressable★Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
2. Addressable★Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
2. Addressable★Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
★ Multiple routes to content
★ Content is multifaceted
★ Tagging drives discovery
3. Discoverable
★ Multiple routes to content
★ Content is multifaceted
★ Tagging drives discovery
3. Discoverable
★ Multiple routes to content
★ Content is multifaceted
★ Tagging drives discovery
3. Discoverable
★ Multiple routes to content
★ Content is multifaceted
★ Tagging drives discovery
3. Discoverable
★ Multiple routes to content
★ Content is multifaceted
★ Tagging drives discovery
3. Discoverable
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetruthabout/
4. Open
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
/technology/internet
/technology/all
/environment/climatechange
/profile/bobbiejohnson
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
/technology/internet
/technology/all
/environment/climatechange
/profile/bobbiejohnson
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
+business/globaleconomy
/technology/internet
/technology/all
/environment/climatechange
/profile/bobbiejohnson
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
+business/globaleconomy
/technology/internet
/technology/all
/environment/climatechange
/profile/bobbiejohnson
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
+business/globaleconomy
+technology/internet
/technology/internet
/technology/all
/environment/climatechange
/profile/bobbiejohnson
The Hackable Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/....
/rss
/rss
+business/globaleconomy/rss
+technology/internet/rss
Commentshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/24/economicgrowth-recession
Commentshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/24/economicgrowth-recession /rss
Commentshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/24/economicgrowth-recession /rss
Commentshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/24/economicgrowth-recession /rss
Full Fat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azadam/
guardian.co.uk built using open source technology...
Open source
Contributing to open source technology...Open source
http://dbdeploy.com
http://rhinounit.googlecode.com
http://mockito.googlecode.com
Lightweight mock object testing framework
Javascript unit testing framework
Database change management
JBossCache patches
1995 - Guardian’s first web project1996-98 - New Media Lab1998 - Guardian talkboards1999 - Guardian Unlimited launches 1999 - Removal of registration system1999 - Rich Site Summary feeds1999 - Free headlines distribution service2001 - First weblog2001 - Ask Aristotle2006 - Guardian Technology’s “Free Our Data” campaign2006 - Comment is free2007 -Rebuild for web architecture2007 - RSS Everywhere2007 - Partners network2008 - Full text RSS (with Ads)2008 - First hackday
Matt McAlisterHead of Guardian Developer Network
(hack day video)
The Open PlatformThe suite of services enabling partners to
build applications with the Guardian
Content APIA service for selecting and collecting content from the Guardian for
re-use
Data StoreA directory of useful
data curated by Guardian editors
Mat WallLead software architect
guardian.co.uk• 1 million items of content published
between 1999 - 2008
• News, reviews, sports, comment, debate
• tag metadata applied to content by our editors
ContentTags
ContentTags
Article
Video
Audio
Gallery
Cartoon
ContentTags
Article
Video
Audio
Gallery
Cartoon
Keyword
Contributor
Series
Publication
Tone
ContentTags
Article
Video
Audio
Gallery
Cartoon
Keyword
Contributor
Series
Publication
Tone
Tags are attached to content by editors
Both tags & content haveeditorial value
Tags can be combined to create customised resources: pages, RSS feeds
guardian.co.uk• Has an amazing amount of quality content
• Content meta-data curated by guardian editors
• Fantastic playground for our internal development team
How do we open this to the world?
Content API• Backed off our search engine
• Provides access to all article content & tags
• Supports multiple output formats: XML, JSON, ATOM
• Supports free text search across content
• Search for keywords
Guardian database
CMS
Search engine
API
Your app here!
Demos
Tom MarshDeveloper
Simon WillisonSoftware architect
Simon RogersNews Editor
Partners
PartnersTechnology Services
Mashery
Endeca
Client Libraries
Tom Armitage
Kalv Sandhu
James Darling
Dave Nattris
Michael Lee
• AMEE maps and tracks energy data.• We plan to use the Open Platform to help them
distribute AMEE data more widely.
• AMEE maps and tracks energy data.• We plan to use the Open Platform to help them
distribute AMEE data more widely.
• Stamen Design is a San Francisco design firm• APIMaps.org is a crowdsourced news geotagger
built with OpenStreetMap.
• Zemanta is a content analysis service.• They built a search utility that links Guardian
content to the open web - wikipedia, flickr, etc.
• Kalv Sandhu is a Ruby developer.• TweetReviews surfaces twitter conversations
related to events reviewed by the Guardian.
• Kalv Sandhu is a Ruby developer.• TweetReviews surfaces twitter conversations
related to events reviewed by the Guardian.
• Yahoo! has several developer services such as BOSS, YQL and Flickr that make mashups better.
• Christian Heilmann built a “news mixer” tool that returns interesting resources on any topic.
• The Cass Sculpture Foundation commissions, sells and loans sculptures from British artists.
• They added related articles from the Guardian to each artist’s bio page on their web site.
• The Cass Sculpture Foundation commissions, sells and loans sculptures from British artists.
• They added related articles from the Guardian to each artist’s bio page on their web site.
Pricing
FREE!
What does “free” mean?• You can publish full articles from the
Guardian
• 5k queries per day limit, online support
• Partner with us on advertising
New revenue opportunities based
on new uses for Guardian articles
• Embedded ads
• Performance-based advertising
• Behavioral targeting
• Reselling and redistributing data
Beta Trial
• Keys approved on a limited basis
• Collecting feedback to understand how people want to work with us
• Will open more widely soon
• Getting Started
• Get a key• API Explorer
• Getting Started
• Get a key• API Explorer
• Data Store information
• Getting Started
• Get a key• API Explorer
• Data Store information
• T&Cs• Help• FAQs
• What is the Open Platform?
• Where is the documentation?
• What can I make with it?
• What are the limitations?
• How do I get access?
• How do I get help?
• What are the use rights?
• How much content is available?
• When will it be more widely available?
• Who else is using it?
Frequently Asked Questions
CONTENT API
A free service for selecting and collecting Guardian content for re-use
DATA STORE
A directory of useful data curated by Guardian editors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform