royal opera house: why we love linked data and the semantic web
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Ongoing project to rebuild the Royal Opera House website along semantic lines. The challenges of thoroughly modelling information for a cultural institution. The potential benefits for arts organisations of exposing their data. Ellen West and Jamie Tetlow gave this presentation at Culture Geek conference at the Barbican Centre in London on Friday 7th September 2012. http://www.culturegeek.comTRANSCRIPT
Why we love linked data and the semantic webEllen West | Jamie Tetlow
Royal Opera House
Content | Development
Some definitions
‘Linked Data’ | The Semantic WebTim Berners-Lee, Design Issues, 2006-07-27
Culture Hack DayJanuary 2011
Culture Hack Day (Weekend)
Some specifics
Hack by Clare Lovell and Matthew Somerville
Hack by Dan Williams
The BBC
BBC Programmes
BBC Music
musicbrainz.org
BBC Wildlife Finder
dbpedia.org
The old Royal Opera House website
Waiting room
A big sitemap
Verdi’s Aida – lots of content
Incoherently connected
Bloated CMS
The new Royal Opera House website
Domain modelling
Evolving prototype
Where’s it heading
‘Verdi’
…which links to ‘Aida’
schema.org
Schemas
HTML view for people
Data view for machines
Challenges
Opening up other areas of the business
Conclusions
Thank youwww.roh.org.uk