Semweb at the BBC

A Brief Introduction to the Semantic Web... ...at the BBC

Who are we?
Matthew Wood Head of Software Engineering and Architecture
Michael Smethurst Information Architect

What we'll be talking about
How we got where we are
Why we need the semantic web
Linked data
Linking BBC data
What we're doing

How we got where we are

In the beginning was…

The International Information Infrastructure (III)

A network of machines

A network of machines
Otherwise known as the internet

On top of which was built...

...the World Wide Web (WWW)

...the World Wide Web (WWW)
A web of documents

Now we're moving towards...

...the Giant Global Graph (GGG)

A web of things

A web of things
Otherwise known as…
The semantic web
Web 3.0
The web of data

Why we need the semantic web

People understand…

Machines don’t…

The semantic web helps machines to help people to understand the web

So how do we add meaning for machines?

Semantic HTML + Microformats + GRDDL

Semantic HTML + RDFa

Semantic HTML + RDFa
RDF

Linked data

“ Linked data is the Semantic Web done right, and the web done right” Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that

“ Magazines are made of pages, the web is made of links” I said that

Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)

Use URIs as names for things.

Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.

When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.

When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

WEB Structured Data

MUSICBRAINZ WIKIPEDIA FLICKR LAST.FM WEB Structured Data

WEB Structured Data

Linking BBC data

bbc.co.uk is incoherent…

bbc.co.uk is incoherent… …because it’s unconnected

Saturday Kitchen Episode Page Saturday Kitchen Recipe

Unless we link our data…

global visual language

common navigation patterns

technology refresh

technology refresh
page assembly layers

technology refresh
“ common platforms”

technology refresh
“ common platforms”
… are all treating the symptoms, not the illness

BBC Structured Data

PROGRAMMES FOOD BBC Structured Data NEWS MUSIC

BBC Structured Data PROGRAMMES FOOD NEWS MUSIC

Audio and Music from 10,000 feet Programmes Music Topics Users Events

The BBC from 10,000 feet Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Gardening

What we’re doing

What we’ve done

Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier

Designed and built /programmes according to linked data principles

Published the Programmes Ontology

Used the Music Ontology to publish RDF for /music

Used the Music Ontology to publish RDF for /music
Experimented with pushing programme ontology data over XMPP

What we’re doing next

RDF on /programmes

RDF on /programmes
RDFa on /programmes and /music

RDF on /programmes
Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes

RDF on /programmes
Using MusicBrainz <> Dbpedia linked data equivalency to aggregate artist information at /music

RDF on /programmes
/events as linked data

RDF on /programmes
(Hopefully) working with Identity on /users

RDF on /programmes
(Hopefully) working with Identity on /users
Working with Vision to link food and gardening

Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Gardening

THANKS

To…
Yves Raimond
Nicholas Humfrey
Patrick Sinclair
Chris Sizemore
Tom Scott
Sophie Walpole
Sean McVeigh

Open the box, Open the box, Open the goddam box!

http://www.bbc.co.uk	1101
http://wiki.globoi.com	13
http://andrescavelier.com	12
http://www.slideshare.net	10
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk	5
http://209.85.229.132	2
http://www.newsgator.com	1
http://paper.li	1
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	1

Semweb at the BBC

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