sounds like a great plan, tom -- many of us inside the BBC are quite into dbpedia and linked data, so i think it's not out of the question to attempt what you suggest...
here's an example of some work in that direction by my colleague michael smethurst: http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2825/programmes/29xn (currently down, tho -- michael?) my followup question for you and the list, though, is this: what algorithms and methods exist to bootstrap the kind of linking you advocate? it's doubtful that we're going to be able to do all this linking, however valuable, by hand. i.e. what (semi-)automated methods exist for linking all the BBC programme catalogue resources to their corresponding dbpedia/wikipedia/musicbrainz et al resources? for instance, we should be linking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009070m & perhaps http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b0091v4d.shtml to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_Me_The_Face (or rather its dbpedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Find_Me_The_Face, i guess) but what ways exist to do this script-o-matically? thoughts? best-- --cs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Morris Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 8:37 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future? On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was hoping to get a brainstorm of ideas for APIs and Feeds you would love > to play with in the near future, while focusing on Vision/TV > > I got most of the obvious stuff like, > > - A 31 day schedule in XML > - TV schedules as a API with past and future ability > - Direct links to iplayer programmes > - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of upcoming iplayer programmes > - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of programmes about to drop off iplayer > - Links between programmes and their programme catalogue entry > - The Programme Catalogue! :) It'd be nice if the BBC could publish RDF of their whole programme catalogue and add it to the already growing sphere of Linked Open Data: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData Hook the programmes in with parts of the diagram on the page - eg: - for all programmes, link them to the DBPedia resource for that programme if it exists on Wikipedia - for actors and presenters, link them to their DBPedia resource - for music programmes, link bands and songs in - for news and factual programmes, link them to online stories that cover the same story - for review programmes (like Newsnight Review), link in the relevant discussed books/authors/films/plays etc. - for things which happen in a particular place, link them into Geonames - for dramatic re-enactments, link them to what they were re-enacting (historical events, books, plays etc.) - in political coverage, link through to details about the relevant politicians and legislation Less hacking RSS and Atom to do things for which they were not intended (they are feed formats, not universal containers). -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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