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A Brief Introduction to the Semantic Web...
...at the BBC
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Who are we?
Matthew Wood Head of Software Engineering and Architecture
Michael Smethurst Information Architect
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What we'll be talking about
• How we got where we are• Why we need the semantic web• Linked data• Linking BBC data• What we're doing
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How we got where we are
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In the beginning was…
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In the beginning was…
• The International Information Infrastructure (III)
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In the beginning was…
• The International Information Infrastructure (III)• A network of machines
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In the beginning was…
• The International Information Infrastructure (III)• A network of machines• Otherwise known as the internet
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On top of which was built...
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On top of which was built...
• ...the World Wide Web (WWW)
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On top of which was built...
• ...the World Wide Web (WWW)• A web of documents
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Now we're moving towards...
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Now we're moving towards...
• ...the Giant Global Graph (GGG)
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Now we're moving towards...
• ...the Giant Global Graph (GGG)• A web of things
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Now we're moving towards...
• ...the Giant Global Graph (GGG)• A web of things
Otherwise known as… • The semantic web• Web 3.0• The web of data
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Why we need the semantic web
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People understand…
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Machines don’t…
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The semantic web helps machines to help people to understand the web
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So how do we add meaning for machines?
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So how do we add meaning for machines?
• Semantic HTML + Microformats + GRDDL
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So how do we add meaning for machines?
• Semantic HTML + Microformats + GRDDL• Semantic HTML + RDFa
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So how do we add meaning for machines?
• Semantic HTML + Microformats + GRDDL• Semantic HTML + RDFa• RDF
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Linked data
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“Linked data is the Semantic Web done right, and the web done right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that
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“Magazines are made of pages, the web is made of links”
I said that
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Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)
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Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)
• Use URIs as names for things.
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Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)
• Use URIs as names for things.• Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
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Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)
• Use URIs as names for things.• Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.• When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
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Design Issues for Linked Data (more TBL)
• Use URIs as names for things.• Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.• When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.• Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
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WEB
StructuredData
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MUSICBRAINZ
WIKIPEDIA
FLICKR
LAST.FM
WEB
StructuredData
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WEB
StructuredData
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Linking BBC data
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bbc.co.uk is incoherent…
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bbc.co.uk is incoherent……because it’s unconnected
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Saturday Kitchen Episode Page Saturday Kitchen Recipe
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Unless we link our data…
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language• common navigation patterns
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language• common navigation patterns• technology refresh
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language• common navigation patterns• technology refresh• page assembly layers
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language• common navigation patterns• technology refresh• page assembly layers• “common platforms”
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Unless we link our data…
• global visual language• common navigation patterns• technology refresh• page assembly layers• “common platforms”
…are all treating the symptoms, not the illness
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BBC
StructuredData
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PROGRAMMES
FOOD
BBC
StructuredData
NEWS
MUSIC
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BBC
StructuredData PROGRAMMES
FOODNEWS
MUSIC
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Audio and Music from 10,000 feet
ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users Events
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ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Gardening
The BBC from 10,000 feet
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What we’re doing
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What we’ve done
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• Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier
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• Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier• Designed and built /programmes according to linked data principles
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• Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier• Designed and built /programmes according to linked data principles• Published the Programmes Ontology
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• Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier• Designed and built /programmes according to linked data principles• Published the Programmes Ontology• Used the Music Ontology to publish RDF for /music
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• Moved to MusicBrainz as our music metadata supplier• Designed and built /programmes according to linked data principles• Published the Programmes Ontology• Used the Music Ontology to publish RDF for /music• Experimented with pushing programme ontology data over XMPP
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What we’re doing next
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• RDF on /programmes
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music• Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music• Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes• Using MusicBrainz <> Dbpedia linked data equivalency to aggregate
artist information at /music
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music• Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes• Using MusicBrainz <> Dbpedia linked data equivalency to aggregate
artist information at /music• /events as linked data
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music• Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes• Using MusicBrainz <> Dbpedia linked data equivalency to aggregate
artist information at /music• /events as linked data• (Hopefully) working with Identity on /users
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• RDF on /programmes• RDFa on /programmes and /music• Using Wikipedia / Dbpedia for topic aggregations on /programmes• Using MusicBrainz <> Dbpedia linked data equivalency to aggregate
artist information at /music• /events as linked data• (Hopefully) working with Identity on /users• Working with Vision to link food and gardening
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ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Gardening
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ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Gardening
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THANKS
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To…
• Yves Raimond• Nicholas Humfrey• Patrick Sinclair• Chris Sizemore• Tom Scott• Sophie Walpole• Sean McVeigh
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Open the box, Open the box,Open the goddam box!