Media meets the Semantic Web – Part 1 Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Christian Bizer and Robert Lee

CMS and auto-categorisation http://www.richardsonmedia.co.uk/Newsroom%2025a.jpg

Taxonomy Facet : proper names Subfacet : people and characters Facet : subject Subfacet : education

Rules based catergorisation

What went wrong? Labour intensive. Journalist did not want to re-use content. Benefits were not immediately tangible. Journalist are good at writing stories but necessarily indexing them.

Labour intensive.

Journalist did not want to re-use content.

Benefits were not immediately tangible.

Journalist are good at writing stories but necessarily indexing them.

Move to use metadata for user facing propositions Drivers: Search Engine Optimisation Scalable navigation

Drivers:

Search Engine Optimisation

Scalable navigation

content Category Category Category Home Top level Category

content Category Category Category Home User Top level Category

content Category Category Category Home User Top level Category

One page per concept of interest to the BBC content Home Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic Topic

Cross linking stratedgy Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Gardening

How does linked data help?

How does linked data help?

BBC Music artist programme played on

programmes

lat/longs related locations people born in that location historical events etc, etc

lat/longs

related locations

people born in that location

historical events

etc, etc

Statistical categorisation

Content link tool

Some linking across domains Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Natural history CIS

Automated cross linking – news to music

Some linking across domains Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Natural history CIS

Legacy data sets - CIS

The Web

The (Semantic )Web of linked data

Benefits of Linked Data A page for every concept of interest to the BBC A consistent scalable cross-linking strategy Improved SEO Publishing more RDF as Linked Data

A page for every concept of interest to the BBC

A consistent scalable cross-linking strategy

Improved SEO

Publishing more RDF as Linked Data

What next? A page for every.... News event Events Place

A page for every....

News event

Events

Place

Thanks to Chris Sizemore Michael Smethurst Tom Scott Yves Raimond Christian Bizer Robert Lee

Chris Sizemore

Michael Smethurst

Tom Scott

Yves Raimond

Christian Bizer

Robert Lee