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I’ve been doing a few talks recently – most recently at the somewhat confused OKCon (Open Knowledge) Conference. The audience was extremely diverse and so I tried to not only talk about what we’ve done but also introduce the concept of Linked Data and explain what it is. Linked Data is a grassroots project to use web technologies to expose data on the web. It is for many people synonymous with the semantic web – and while this isn’t quite true. It does, as far as I’m concerned, represent a very large subset of the semantic web project.
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Yves Raimond , BBC Tom Scott , BBC Patrick Sinclair , BBC Libby Miller , BBC Stephen Betts , BBC and Frances McNamara , BBC , United Kingdom The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Central to its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. It is a public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded, in part, by the licence fee that is paid by UK households. The BBC uses the income from the licence fee to provide public services including 8 national TV channels plus regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website, bbc.co.uk . Linking microsites for cross-domain navigation
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Our friends at Rewired State, recently had a hackday where Ben Griffins created a Greasemonkey script which, Publishes links to relevant data.gov.uk datasets next to news articles on the BBC website. Provides important context for those articles and increased visibility for the datasets. Implemented as a simple greasemonkey Firefox script connecting to a simple search service built with Google's ajax search api. Not content with that Ben's already thinking about packaged it as a firefox toolbar rather than a greasemonkey plug-in. Moving away from reliant on google's search apis. and of course, if it supported more websites.
The soccer World Cup has now ended, with Spain the victor. England was unceremoniously dumped out before the quarter finals - but if there was a World Cup for the Semantic Web, then the BBC may have lifted the trophy for its country. A post on the BBC Internet site explains how the BBC World Cup 2010 website used "dynamic semantic publishing" technology. It's an impressive demonstration of how a large, mainstream website can have added meaning and structure. The BBC World Cup site featured over 700 webpages and was powered by a semantic publishing framework. The site boasted a comprehensive ontology (a map of concepts), that output "automated metadata-driven web pages" created on-the-fly.
