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Paper presented at the the European Semantic Web Conference 2009 looks at how the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections.
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Journalism BBC MMIX
Media meets the Semantic Web – Part 1
Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Christian Bizer and Robert Lee
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CMS and auto-categorisation
http://www.richardsonmedia.co.uk/Newsroom%2025a.jpg
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Facet: proper namesSubfacet: people and characters
Facet: subjectSubfacet: education
Taxonomy
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Rules based catergorisation
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What went wrong?
• Labour intensive.
• Journalist did not want to re-use content.
• Benefits were not immediately tangible.
• Journalist are good at writing stories but necessarily indexing them.
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Move to use metadata for user facing propositions
Drivers:
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Scalable navigation
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content
Category Category Category
Home
Top levelCategory
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content
Category Category Category
Home User
Top levelCategory
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content
Category Category Category
Home User
Top levelCategory
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One page per concept of interest to the BBC
content
Home
Topic TopicTopicTopicTopicTopicTopic TopicTopic
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ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Gardening
Cross linking stratedgy
How does linked data help?
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BBC Music
artist programme
played on
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programmes
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• lat/longs• related locations• people born in that location• historical events• etc, etc
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Statistical categorisation
Content link tool
ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Natural history
Some linking across domains
CIS
Automated cross linking – news to music
ProgrammesMusic
Topics
Users
Events
News Food
Natural history
Some linking across domains
CIS
Legacy data sets - CIS
The Web
The (Semantic )Web of linked data
Benefits of Linked Data
• A page for every concept of interest to the BBC
• A consistent scalable cross-linking strategy
• Improved SEO
• Publishing more RDF as Linked Data
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What next?
A page for every....
• News event
• Events
• Place
Thanks to
• Chris Sizemore• Michael Smethurst• Tom Scott• Yves Raimond• Christian Bizer• Robert Lee