news:rewired - linked data and the semantic web

news:rewired - Linked data and the semantic web

Martin Belam

Information Architect, Guardian News & MediaDecember 2010

Our content model relies on tags...

...which are not anywhere near as boring as you think

Keywords

Contributor

Series

Publication

Tone

Article

Video

Audio

Gallery

Cartoon

Tags Content

Keywords

Every piece of content carries aselection of hand-picked tags

Now our tags are entering the world of linked data

Our book reviews carry ISBNs

And our content API can be queried by ISBN

http://explorer.content.guardianapis.com/

Our artist tag pages have MusicBrainz IDs associated with them

And the API can be queried by MusicBrainz ID

So this piece of content has an ISBN anda MusicBrainz ID associated with it

Where do we go next?

Where can we get the most linked data for the least effort?What will be used in the real world?

Why XML and JSON?

(Don't panic - this is as techie as I'm going to get...)

"What I think is most important is that we provide consistent, RESTful, predictable, persistent hooks into Guardian.co.uk content, in as many ways as possible, with the right licence for re-use"- Martin Belam, Nodalities blog

And you can't please all of the people...

Sometimes only some of the data is free

For news organisations,linked data isn't just about publishing

Photograph of Topeka Capital Journal printing press by Marion Dosshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ooocha/2869488840/

We are facing an onslaught of state data

The UK Government is releasing itin a linked data format using RDF and SPARQL

And providing permanent references totransport infrastructure, schools and maps

Linked data about MPs

Legislation as data

The Charities Act 1993, as it stands

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/10/contents

The Charities Act 1993, as it stood

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/10/contents/enacted

The Charities Act 1993, as it will be

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/10/contents/2011-06-01

It is still all about the story

Photograph of Story Telling in a Boston Public Libraryhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ooocha/2869488840/

Finding out more?

guardian.co.uk/info/developer-blog

Finding out more?

blogs.talis.com/nodalities

Finding out more?