{"id":428,"date":"2008-05-15T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-05-15T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:38:00","slug":"bbc-opening-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/bbc-opening-up\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Opening Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_402216\"><object style=\"margin:0px\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slideshare.net\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=xtech-presentation-2008-1210681014493196-8\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.slideshare.net\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=xtech-presentation-2008-1210681014493196-8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/?src=embed\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slideshare.net\/swf\/logo_embd.png\" style=\"border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px\" alt=\"SlideShare\"\/><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/derivadow\/bbc-programmes-ontology-xtech2008\" title=\"View this slideshow on SlideShare\">View<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/upload\">Upload your own<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/CIMP\/bT*xJmx*PTEyMTA4MzY1MzM5OTYmcHQ9MTIxMDgzNjU*NjkyNSZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9Jm49Jmc9Mg==.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe BBC is opening up and making its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/radiolabs\/2008\/05\/helping_machines_play_with_pro.shtml\">data accessible<\/a> to development teams outside the beeb &#8211; they are also following the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linked_Data\">Linked Data<\/a> approach &#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe have been following the Linked Data approach &#8211; namely thinking of URIs as more than just locations for documents. Instead using them to identify anything, from a particular person to a particular programme. These resources in-turn have representations, which can be machine-processable (through the use of RDF, Microformats, RDFa, etc.), and these representations can hold links towards further web resources, allowing agents to jump from one dataset to another.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThey have designed and published a simple but versatile ontology for describing Programme data which can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/ontologies\/programmes\/2008-02-28.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| View | Upload your own The BBC is opening up and making its data accessible to development teams outside the beeb &#8211; they are also following the Linked Data approach &#8230; We have been following the Linked Data approach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/bbc-opening-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,341,49],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-linked-data","tag-semantic-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}