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BBC Things - joining up the

news with open dataJames Logan - BBC Linked Data Platform

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Talk Overview

About 20 minutes

Structure:

1. News sections

2. Tagging the news

3. Joining up the news

4. Questions and discussion

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Purpose of the BBC Linked

Data Platform Organise the BBC's online content

around the things that matter to ouraudience

Make better use of BBC content

Open the BBCs tagging data up to

the public

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Copyright holder: BBC

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Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis-Hill

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Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis-HillLinked Open

Datasets

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Wikidata & DBpedia- Wikipedia

based general datasets MusicBrainz- Music artists and

groups GeoNames- Geographical data

Statistics.GOV.UK- Parlimentary

constituencies and other political

entities

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Benefits to news organisations of

Linked Open Data

Better search results

Search engines can follow the links to Linked Open

Datasets too

Syndication Customers can accurately find the articles they wish

to display

BBC: External linking targets More relevant links to other news organisations

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Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis

Jessica

Ennis-HillLinked Open

Datasets

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Thank you

&

Any questions?