ten years of linked data at the bbc
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Ten Years of Linked Data at the BBC:
Implementing a User-focused Semantic Architecture
Paul Rissen, Senior Data Architect & Product Manager, BBC
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The Rationale of Connected Data
“Sunday was a great day for stumbling across interesting shows. First, I came
across a programme on Radio 4 that was nothing but orchestral musicians and
conductors talking about playing Ravel’s Bolero, intercut with relevant snippets of
the music…Unfortunately the show doesn’t seem to exist on Radio 4’s site.”
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/01/06/bolero_houston_r.php
“…sponsoring the creation of wise, informative material like Brave New Europe is admirable but effectively
hiding it away behind a wall of information after it's been broadcast
sharply diminishes its value”http://web.archive.org/web/20060627002525/http://www.bowblog.com/archives/000729.html
/programmes provides a permanent, findableweb presence for every TV and Radio
programme the BBC broadcasts, one page per programme.
/programmes is based on open standards and Linked Open Data - weaving itself into the fabric of bbc.co.uk and the web, creating a
coherent experience for people and machines.
/programmes believes:
in one webin accessibility for people
in accessibility for machinesit's a service, not a product
in designing from the domain model up, not the interface down
in being RESTfulin open standards
in open datain linked data
in fixing the data, not hacking the codein links before pages
that the real value is in the links to other domainsin designing for the browser in the browser
The Business Benefits of Connected Data
The Evolution of Connected Data
B B C L I N K E D D A T A I N N U M B E R S
• People: 22,443
• Places: 23,430
• Organisations: 2839
• Events: 731
• Themes: 1222
• In total (across several products), we have 50,665 tags.
The Challenges of Connected Data
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Sheep-cumbria.jpg
The Future of Connected Data
I design Webs
I tell stories to machines
What’s the difference between Midsomer Murders & Columbo?
Columbo
Midsomer Murders
“Storytelling is the dramatisation of theprocess of knowledge assimilation.”
John Yorke, Former Controller of BBC Drama Production
–Phillip Sandifer
“We read fiction through a process of continual interpretation and deciphering.
Aristotle describes a plot as a web of events that make each other likely or necessary.
Much of reading a work of fiction is working out that web - trying to figure out what the future
implications of something are, or trying to work out why something happened based on what
happened previously..”
A web of events
The Bits about Bits
“The best way to deal with a massive amount of television is not
to deal with it at all.Let an agent do that...”
“We need those bits that describe the narrative with key words, data about the content, and forward and
backward references.”
“The bits about the bits change broadcasting totally.
The networks will finally learn what networking is about.”
Every Episode isits own API
Thank you.@r4isstatic
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