"the birth of the newsroom of things" for hacks hackers london; linked data in bbc news
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birth of The Newsroom of Things
(at BBC)
For HACKS HACKERS LONDON Feb 2015 ##HHLDN
Matt Shearer @BBC_News_Labs
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TONIGHT:
• Some context
• Case study
• What’s next
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A little about BBC News Labs
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What do we do?
Technology
Journalism
● Incubate ideas in this space
● #newsHACK events
● Partnerships
● New Formats Data
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME (for context)
sorry
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You’ve seen this
ARRGHHHH VALUE
Near Term Long Term
THIS IS
WHAT
WE NEED
THIS IS THE
TENDENCY
EVEN IN
A LAB ALWAYS
FOCUS
HERE
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we go bananas
over “moments in time”
and then they are gone
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So, my focus
ARRGHHHH VALUE
Near Term Long Term
ONLY
LOOK
HERE !
It drives
best
ROI
It opens
future
opportunities
It helps create
productive
teams
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THE CASE STUDY
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BACK TO THE START
of linked data in BBC
NEWS
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IT WAS SPRING 2012.
**EVERYONE**
was on 1 project
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The OLYMPICS
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From ~May 2012
“Do not release another
atom of code …
… in case you knock
over the Olympics.”
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This was an
unprecedented
opportunity:
Let’s focus on something
Long Term & Important
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“How might BBC News
use Linked Data
to connect and
contextualise
our News Stories?”
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Answer: The Juicer
• before we change the Newsroom?
• and without the need for MAGIC DUST?
So – how do we explore this
1
Get
Content
2
Extract
Concepts
3
Match to
DBpedia
4
Annotate
Content
5
Push to
Triplestore
6
Expose
via
API
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So, explain again,
what is
“THE JUICER”?
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OK. In other words:
The Juicer automatically
tags News content with
Linked Data Tags
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...& it allows us to test ideas,
using real data,
without an army
of tagging experts.
(NB it is not as good as real humans, yet)
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The Timeline of
The Birth of THINGS*
in BBC News
* “Things” being: Linked Data, real world concepts (or “tags”)
that are understandable by machines.
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Window on the NEWSROOM
Production App
Journalists
doing Manual Tagging
Storyline
2013 2014 2015
Summer
Labs Added “Non BBC” Sources
Start
App prototype PAIN
Sources ++
YES!
R&D
DISCUSS
A LOT
FUNDING
CRISIS
Joined
Connected
Studio
What’s the
editorial
story L.D.
concept?
v1
Conceptual
Struggle
Sceptical
Of Linked
Data
explore
APP
“Yes – it
will work!”
Innovation
Support
Production
Scaling
Vote
2014 Used
Linked
Data
This saved
us!
Thanks
to Robin
JT
Joins
JUICER POC in
the Newsroom
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And so “The Things”
were born in BBC News.
And launched to our users
via BBC mobile Apps
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OK
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What did we find?
1. A Prototype is worth 1000 meetings
2. There will be pain
3. Loose coupling of teams/services is key
4. Keep referring to point 1
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Next time? How do we plan it?
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The formula is
• Enthusiastic people
• Cross discipline
• Trust & space from your sponsors
• Be pourous – flux of collaboration
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What we use the Juicer for now
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We use it to explore opportunities in the
important intersection
Technology
Journalism
Data
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Metajournalism:
Stories in the Data in the Stories
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EU Vote (2014) Media coverage
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Over time…
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Co-occurence…
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More co-occurence
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More co-occurence
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NB – the tag associations here
are “co-occurrences”, and so
there is no indication of what the
co-occurrence means.
i.e. It could be negative, positive,
or non associative.
All we know is that the terms
have co-occurred in News
Articles in our source set.
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What’s happening right now?
We are scaling-up the sources
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What’s next for the Newsroom of Things?
1. Extend linked data through other workflows
2. Explore wider opportunities with Partners
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Elsewhere in BBC NEWS LABS
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Pilots to reach new audiences
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“Adaptive News”
(pan-dimensional responsiveness)
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Immersive current affairs
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Neurotech
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#newsHACK events – rapid prototyping
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Language Tech
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Argument Mining
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Partnerships
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Thanks
@BBC_News_Labs
@completedespair
www.BBCNewsLabs.co.uk