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?
