What's out there?
The Linking Open Data project
 
 
Linked Data at the BBC
Semantic Web at the BBC Lots of data... Isolated public-facing web sites
 
 
What we want... ” Give me all BBC shows that involved the Beatles at least ten times” ” Give me any programme episode currently available on iPlayer featuring a track by an artist who is married to an artist from Jamaica” ” Give me all programmes that are about a town I am travelling to in the next ten months” ” Give me all programmes involving artists associated with a given political movement” ” Which BBC service should I be listening to, given my personal music collection?” ” Which BBC programme involve one of my high-school friend's band?”
What we've done... BBC Programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ URIs + RDF for every brand, series, episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk.rdf Ontology for programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/programmes/ Content negotiation is broken :-(
BBC Programmes Ontology
What we've done... BBC Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta/ Using Musicbrainz URIs + RDF for every artist, e.g. Using the Music Ontology http://musicontology.com Linked to Dbpedia http://dbpedia.org/
 
 
What we're doing next Topics Events Programmes Gardening Food News Users Music
What we're doing next Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Gardening
Applications
Search engines Sindice -  http://sindice.com/ SWSE -  http://swse.org/ Falcon -  http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons Swoogle -  http://swoogle.umbc.edu/ Watson -  http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk
Linked data browsers Tabulator -  http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/tab/ Disco -  http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdf_browser/ OpenLink RDF browser -  http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/ Zitgist browser -  http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/ OpenLink data explorer -  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8062 Marbles -  http://beckr.org/marbles Fenfire -  http://fenfire.org/
Aggregations Aggregating structured web data for answering a query, e.g. Artists who made at least one album tagged as `punk' by a Jamendo user, sorted by the number of inhabitants of the places they are based near. Every BBC brands in which The Beatles were featured at least ten times.
DBpedia Mobile http://beckr.org/DBpediaMobile/
GNAT and GNARQL http://sourceforge.net/projects/motools/
GNAT and GNARQL
GNAT and GNARQL More tomorrow :-)
Conclusion
Web identifiers for things + RDF for linking up these things = Web of data

Linked data and applications

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    The Linking OpenData project
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    Semantic Web atthe BBC Lots of data... Isolated public-facing web sites
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    What we want...” Give me all BBC shows that involved the Beatles at least ten times” ” Give me any programme episode currently available on iPlayer featuring a track by an artist who is married to an artist from Jamaica” ” Give me all programmes that are about a town I am travelling to in the next ten months” ” Give me all programmes involving artists associated with a given political movement” ” Which BBC service should I be listening to, given my personal music collection?” ” Which BBC programme involve one of my high-school friend's band?”
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    What we've done...BBC Programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ URIs + RDF for every brand, series, episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk.rdf Ontology for programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/programmes/ Content negotiation is broken :-(
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    What we've done...BBC Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta/ Using Musicbrainz URIs + RDF for every artist, e.g. Using the Music Ontology http://musicontology.com Linked to Dbpedia http://dbpedia.org/
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    What we're doingnext Topics Events Programmes Gardening Food News Users Music
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    What we're doingnext Programmes Music Topics Users Events News Food Gardening
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    Search engines Sindice- http://sindice.com/ SWSE - http://swse.org/ Falcon - http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons Swoogle - http://swoogle.umbc.edu/ Watson - http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk
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    Linked data browsersTabulator - http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/tab/ Disco - http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdf_browser/ OpenLink RDF browser - http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/ Zitgist browser - http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/ OpenLink data explorer - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8062 Marbles - http://beckr.org/marbles Fenfire - http://fenfire.org/
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    Aggregations Aggregating structuredweb data for answering a query, e.g. Artists who made at least one album tagged as `punk' by a Jamendo user, sorted by the number of inhabitants of the places they are based near. Every BBC brands in which The Beatles were featured at least ten times.
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    GNAT and GNARQLhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/motools/
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    GNAT and GNARQLMore tomorrow :-)
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    Web identifiers forthings + RDF for linking up these things = Web of data