Apis And APIs a wildlife ontology
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My presentation at the 2nd London Linked Data meet up. Introduces Wildlife Finder (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder): the types of resources it describes and the ontology used to describe it.
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Apis And APIs a wildlife ontology
- 1. Apis and APIs A wildlife ontology Tom Scott
- 2. What are we trying to do?
- 3. Link people to content http://www.flickr.com/photos/a2gemma/1448178195/
- 4. Explore the natural world through the BBC archive
- 5. You can’t browse by meaning to build your own story – creating journeys through the things that you care about
- 6. Pimp our programmes!
- 7. Make our website our API
- 8. Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank Conservation skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation Status Ecozone Wildlife Object http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder
- 9. Linnaean taxonomy http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/kingdom/animal
- 10. Linked to habitats http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats
- 11. ...and adaptations http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations
- 12. and to ecozones http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ecozones
- 13. 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/
- 14. All resources have URLs
- 15. Mashing data from across the web http://www.flickr.com/photos/12614773@N07/2328786334/
- 16. Clips live at /programmes but are transcluded onto Wildlife Finder pages Silos http://www.flickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/
- 17. Programme episodes [integrated using /programmes RDF]
- 18. News stories live on the news site
- 19. Wikipedia [aka our CMS for background information]
- 20. WWF... IUCN... University of Michigan Museum of Zoology... ZSL
- 21. DBpedia as a controlled vocabulary Silos http://www.flickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/
- 22. Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank Conservation skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation Status Ecozone Identifiers for resources within the ontology
- 23. 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
- 24. “Raw data now!”
- 25. I can haz RDF
- 26. 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]
- 27. Going live tomorrow... but sneak peak today. Note: we haven’t published adaptations RDF yet
- 28. More info http://purl.org/ontology/wo/
- 29. oh and we also have a little microformating http://microformats.org/wiki/species
- 30. Tom Scott tom.scott@bbc.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- "Curation is the process by which aggregate data is imbued with personalised trust"