Yves Raimond, BBC R&D
Europeana Plenary, Leuven, Belgium
14 June 2012

Radio since 1922

TV since 1930

On the Web since 1994

Programme support

1000 to 1500 programmes per day

Automated programme support

• BBC Programmes
• Aggregates and links data from various sources
• Permanent Web presence for all BBC programmes
• The Web site is the API

The BBC Programme Ontology

Publishing data

• RDF/XML, JSON, XML
• RDFa, Microdata
• Search engines
• External prototypes, new ideas of data sources, UX...
• Exchanging data between various systems at the BBC

Other domains

• BBC Music
• BBC Wildlife Finder
• BBC Food
• BBC Sport (World Cup 2010, London 2012)

BBC Music, using the Web as a CMS

BBC Wildlife Finder, horizontal navigation

Tagging with URIs

• Open Data sources (DBpedia, Musicbrainz)
• Linking different domains
• Contextualising our content
• Aggregating our content

Manual tagging

• Recent programmes
• Archived programmes around particular brands or topics
• What about the rest?

The BBC archive

ABC-IP: Automated interlinking of archived content

• BBC World Service archive
• 3 years of continuous audio, sparse metadata
• Topic interlinking (surfacing archive content on topic aggregations)
• Contributor interlinking

Topic interlinking for speech audio

• Transcription using CMU Sphinx
• Custom algorithm to identify topics from (noisy) transcripts
• Topics identified by DBpedia URIs
• Distributed using Amazon Web Services
• More details in our LDOW 2012 paper and our WWW'12 demo paper

Contributor interlinking

• Segmenting programmes by contributors
• Training models on individual contributors
• Fast matching of contributor models across programmes
• Cross-matching with third-party databases

Enabling users to validate and change data

• Automatically generated data can be inaccurate
• Engaging users in trying to make that data better
• How do users modify data in the light of the behaviour of others?
• How can we define data accuracy?
• Does validation and correction leads to a greater accuracy?

Thank you!