Paul Rissen's slides from his talk at Connected Data London. Paul Rissen, who is the Senior Data Architect for BBC News, and the Product Manager for the Research and Education Space (http://res.space) presented how the BBC implemented a User-focused Semantic architecture.

1. Ten Years of Linked Data at
the BBC:
Implementing a User-focused Semantic
Architecture
Paul Rissen, Senior Data Architect & Product Manager, BBC
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3. The Rationale of Connected
Data

6. “Sunday was a great day for stumbling
across interesting shows. First, I came
across a programme on Radio 4 that was
nothing but orchestral musicians and
conductors talking about playing Ravel’s
Bolero, intercut with relevant snippets of
the music…Unfortunately the show
doesn’t seem to exist on Radio 4’s site.”
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/01/06/bolero_houston_r.php
“…sponsoring the creation of wise,
informative material like Brave New
Europe is admirable but effectively
hiding it away behind a wall of
information after it's been broadcast
sharply diminishes its value”
http://web.archive.org/web/20060627002525/http://www.bowblog.com/archives/000729.html

8. /programmes provides a permanent, findable
web presence for every TV and Radio
programme the BBC broadcasts,
one page per programme.
/programmes is based on open standards and
Linked Open Data - weaving itself into the
fabric of bbc.co.uk and the web, creating a
coherent experience for people and machines.

14. /programmes believes:
in one web
in accessibility for people
in accessibility for machines
it's a service, not a product
in designing from the domain model up, not the interface
down
in being RESTful
in open standards
in open data
in linked data
in fixing the data, not hacking the code
in links before pages
that the real value is in the links to other domains
in designing for the browser in the browser

15. The Business Benefits of
Connected Data

29. The Evolution of Connected Data

39. B B C L I N K E D D A T A I N N U M B E R S
• People: 22,443
• Places: 23,430
• Organisations: 2839
• Events: 731
• Themes: 1222
• In total (across several products), we have 50,665
tags.

43. The Challenges of
Connected Data

51. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Sheep-cumbria.jpg

53. The Future of Connected
Data

54. I design Webs

55. I tell stories to
machines

58. What’s the difference between Midsomer Murders & Columbo?

59. Columbo
Midsomer Murders

60. “Storytelling is the dramatisation of the
process of knowledge assimilation.”
John Yorke, Former Controller of BBC Drama
Production

61. –Phillip Sandifer
“We read fiction through a process of continual
interpretation and deciphering.
Aristotle describes a plot as a web of events that
make each other likely or necessary.
Much of reading a work of fiction is working out
that web - trying to figure out what the future
implications of something are, or trying to work
out why something happened based on what
happened previously..”

62. A web of events

64. The Bits about Bits

65. “The best way to deal with a
massive amount of television is not
to deal with it at all.
Let an agent do that...”

66. “We need those bits that describe
the narrative with key words, data
about the content, and forward and
backward references.”

67. “The bits about the bits
change broadcasting totally.
The networks will finally learn
what networking is about.”

68. Every Episode is
its own API

71. Thank you.
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