Sometimes it takes a little human intervention to make semantic applications easier to build. The Guardian newspaper has augmented its Open Platform API with unique identifiers for bands and books.
Almost every talk about Linked Data I've seen inevitably at some point shows the 'linked data' universe bubble diagram .
In this Nodalities Podcast, I talk with blogger and Guardian information architect Martin Belam. I’ve run into Martin at a few Linked Data events where the news and media industries have had a high profile (including the recent News Media Summit , and News Innovation conference last year). Martin has an interest in Linked Data, and an interesting perspective on where it fits in with News, both as a tool for journalism and research and as a resource for the industry.
The semantic web is given a rough raking by the syntactic web, and it is not impossible to see why when you first get taken down the SPARQL/RDF/Ontology rabbit hole. It is not great fun learning to develop with the semantic web today.
UK newspaper The Guardian is expanding its Open Platform (our Guardian API profile ).
Simon Rogers édite le Data Blog du Guardian et a participé pour son journal à l'exploitation des fuites de Wikileaks. Interview par l'atelier des Médias d'un des principaux datajournalistes.