jo kent | ada – opening up the bbc archive with linked data
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Introducing ADA: Automated Data Architecture
Radio & Music Interactive
Jo Kent
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Some background• The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) is the UK's public-service broadcaster.
• It is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world.
• It produces news articles, television and radio programmes 24 hours a day.
• Somehow that content needs to be findable.
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The BBC in 1997
Hand curated
links and
index pages
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SportSubsections
Sections
Sport ontology
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NewsSubsections
Sections
3 most recent related stories
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News App
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MusicDynamically populated sections
Wikipedia content
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Access to our ontologies and objects
Our ontologies define the domains of our news, sport and
music pages
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Our programmes archive offer
• Only brand specific, bespoke archives
• Expensive to create and maintain
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What about the rest of our programmes?
No existing bespoke hierarchy will work for all of the topics we cover
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But do we really want a hierarchy anyway?
Just as we no longer use directories for the web, we need to look beyond hierarchies for programmes
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Homophily and user experience
Homophily (i.e., love of the same) – people like things that represent their worldview.
The more links you present, the greater the trust in your links.1
1. Ilan Lobel and Evan Sadler. Preferences, Homophily, and Social Learning. In Operations Research, 2014
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So where to find our rich set of links?
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• We used Wikipedia category information
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• Robust, crowd-verified and well maintained data
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ADA • An average of 7 categories per concept
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• We began working with the In Our Time archive
• It provides a broad and varied range of topics to explore
Basic onward journeys Limited, manually curated categorisation
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ADA • Feedback has been positive and constructive
Just a quick look delighted me … I can find all sorts of stuff I never knew existed
The new beta categories database is SUPERB!! Congratulations to the programmer. Truly wonderful. Many, many thanks. Any chance applying it to other science-type podcasts ?
Really ingenious – like it a lot, suggests connections, stimulates interest
Thanks for arranging the categories of In Our Time. I would absolutely love TV programs to be this accessible. Not ones chosen by experts or highlights of, but all of whole series
arranged so that one can follow ones own interests.
This is a marvellous development! Google can be rewarding, but your development plugs us into a more manageable field of knowledge – one that’s nevertheless wide ranging and high
quality. I love the joining-up.
IOT's beta site is simply the single best I've experienced. Now that I have experienced it, I don't want to use the current site's format.
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• A single subject input automatically generates a wide range of categories
• No need for producers to think about categories/genres
Subject input ADA service processing Categories generated Connections created
dbpedia.org/resource/Category:1815_birthsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:1852_deathsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:19th-century_English_mathematiciansdbpedia.org/resource/Category:19th-century_women_writersdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Ada_(programming_language)dbpedia.org/resource/Category:British_computer_scientistsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:British_countessesdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Byron_familydbpedia.org/resource/Category:Computer_designersdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Deaths_from_uterine_cancerdbpedia.org/resource/Category:English_computer_programmersdbpedia.org/resource/Category:English_computer_scientistsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:English_people_of_Scottish_descentdbpedia.org/resource/Category:English_scientistsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:English_women_poetsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Lord_Byrondbpedia.org/resource/Category:Programming_language_designersdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Women_computer_scientistsdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Women_in_engineeringdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Women_in_technologydbpedia.org/resource/Category:Women_mathematiciansdbpedia.org/resource/Category:Women_of_the_Victorian_era
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Maintaining link quality
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Roll out across programmes on the BBC website from September
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ADAQuestions?