Apis And APIs a wildlife ontology

Apis and APIs A wildlife ontology Tom Scott

What are we trying to do?

Link people to content http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/a2gemma/1448178195/

Explore the natural world through the BBC archive

You can’t browse by meaning to build your own story – creating journeys through the things that you care about

Pimp our programmes!

Make our website our API

Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank Conservation skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation Status Ecozone Wildlife Object http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifeﬁnder

Linnaean taxonomy http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/kingdom/animal

Linked to habitats http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats

...and adaptations http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations

and to ecozones http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ecozones

Collections because "Curation is the process by which aggregate data is imbued with personalised trust"* http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/collections * http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/02/14/of-lazy-tandoori-and-epicuration/

All resources have URLs

Mashing data from across the web http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/12614773@N07/2328786334/

Clips live at /programmes but are transcluded onto Wildlife Finder pages Silos http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/

Programme episodes [integrated using /programmes RDF]

News stories live on the news site

Wikipedia [aka our CMS for background information]

WWF... IUCN... University of Michigan Museum of Zoology... ZSL

DBpedia as a controlled vocabulary Silos http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/

Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank Conservation skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation Status Ecozone Identiﬁers for resources within the ontology

Programmes News Stories Brand Index Series Expeditions News Story DBpedia URI Episode Story DBpedia URI or known URL DBpedia URI Clip Natural History Known URI Links content and concepts together

“Raw data now!”

I can haz RDF

I’d like this resource about Lions as RDF/XML please RDF/XML you say? But of course Content negotiation [or add .rdf to the end of the URL e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Tiger.rdf]

Going live tomorrow... but sneak peak today. Note: we haven’t published adaptations RDF yet

More info http://purl.org/ontology/wo/

oh and we also have a little microformating http://microformats.org/wiki/species

Tom Scott tom.scott@bbc.co.uk

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