Presentation from the Semantic Web London meetup in February 2016.

1. BBC – Research & Educa0on Space
Building an Open Pla.orm to Improve Access to
Public Archives for use in Educa<on
Terry Panagoulis
Data Architect – RES Pla.orm
hAp://res.space
@RES_Project

2. Linked Data (102)
What?
Ra<onale
How? Why?

3. Data is everywhere
Data-
– Driven?
– Oriented?
– Inspired?

4. In other words…

5. Where does Linked Data fit in this picture?
• In the Linked Data world datasets do not live
as separate en<<es, but belong to the same
data ecosystem and reference each other so
that data flow enables content discovery.
• Building upon the core concept of the web:
the hyperlink

6. Linked Open Data Cloud,
growing from 2007..

7. Linked Data – the premise (1)
• Following a set of technological principles that
focus around the no<on of RDF triples
(triple = a sentence in human slang)
Bob wrote book

8. Linked Data – the premise (2)
• We can extend (specific to collec<on holder) data by
allowing them to become (fairly generic)
informa<on
• Source A:
– <Bob> <is author of> <book/12345>
• Source B:
– <Bob> <is author of> “Modelling Data”@en

9. Linked Data
Best Prac<ces for publishing structured data
1. Use URIs to name things
2. Use HTTP URIs so that things can be dereferenced
by people/user agents.
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful
informa<on, using the open Web standards such as
RDF, SPARQL
4. Include links to other related things using their URIs
when publishing on the Web.

10. Seman<c Web roadmap

11. What is RES?
An open pla.orm aiming to make it easier for UK
teachers, students and academics to discover, access
and use material held in the public collec<ons of
broadcasters, museums, libraries, galleries and
publishers.

12. What is RES?
“RES demonstrates the suitability and poten6al
impact of Linked Data as a medium for delivering
large-scale educa6onal resources”

13. RES - premise
• User perspec6ve
– Search / Locate / Reuse
assets for educa<on resources
• Collec6on Holder Perspec6ve
– Increases visibility of collec<ons
– Enriches data by linking them to other data on the
web

14. In other words..
RES aAempts to create an LOD index of
resources that can be used in educa<on..
..grouping items by:
- media (mimetype)
- type (Person, Place, Crea6veWork etc)
- subject (concept)

15. Data Front End
User
Applica<ons
Wellcome
Trust
Historic England
BBC
Na<onal
Archives
Wikidata
Natural
History
Museum
RES
pla.orm
End Users
Primary
School Pupils
(via teacher)
Secondary
School Pupils
(via teacher)
University
Lecturers
University
Students

16. Hierarchy of (data) needs
hAp://www.gollner.ca/2010/07/data-informa<on-and-knowledge.html
Wisdom

17. RES Data Model
• Concept URI
• Document URI
• Digital Asset URI
• License(s)

18. RES Data Model
Licensing, what RES expects:
- Descrip<ve document and representa<ons MUST
be published under an open license
- Asset itself MUST be licensed, MAY be published
under an open license

19. RES Data Model
Credit:
Elliot Smith
@townxelliot

20. RES Data Model
“Mandela, Nelson - South Africa President” © BBC

21. RES Data Model

22. RES Data Model

23. RES Data Model

24. RES Data Model

25. RES API
RES view of the world

26. RES Data Model
hAps://git.bbcarchdev.net/oss/spindle/blob/develop/twine/rulebase.Al#L131-140
RES view of the world (cont.)

27. RES – Note on Trust
• Wellcome Library
• Bri<sh Library Discovering Literature
• Natural History Museum Bri<sh Museum
(Shakespeare Plays)
• Culture 24
• Open University Podcasts
• People’s Collec<on Wales
• Na<onal Library of Wales
• Europeana
• Wiltshire Heritage Museum
• Wordsworth Trust
• Historic England
• Archaeology Data Service
• Ordnance Survey
• Live Music Archive
• Bri<sh Geological Survey
hAp://www.freeimages.com/photo/trust-the-park-bench-1511643

28. How can I access RES?
Project website: hAp://res.space
TwiAer: @RES_Project
Developer’s guide: hAps://bbcarchdev.github.io/inside-acropolis/
(Beta) Live pla.orm: hAp://acropolis.org.uk

29. RES @ BBC
hAps://git.bbcarchdev.net/oss/spindle/blob/develop/twine/rulebase.Al#L131-140
(Partnership)
Project end: 03/2017
Next steps: U<lize RES within BBC domain

30. Final thoughts
Poten<al beyond educa<on..

31. This work is licensed by the BBC under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. To view a
copy of this license, visit
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Feel free to email eleftherios.panagoulis.ext@bbc.co.uk with comments,
questions, or corrections.