Honeypot
Personalised BBC Programmes and Topics and....
Simon Cross - Principal Web Developer, bbc.co.uk
“The state of the Semantic Web at the BBC”, Weds 30th July 2008

Syndication and Personalisation
Socialness on top of Semantics

Honeypot IS....
Small, Fast, Agile
Just 2 Developers + UX&D Support
Prototypal focus, but with publicly released results

Why?
Too many Programmes
Too many Topics
....Too many ‘Content Objects’
Tags, Formats, Genres only get us so far...

Why?
• Need to Personalise to make sense of it all
• So, store collections of content around a User
• Enables Content Discovery
• Enables Content Sharing
• Social on top of Semantics