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BBC Backstage SPARQL Endpoint

by ian on Jun.10, 2009, under Ideas , News

The Linked Open Data approach to nurturing a next-generation Web is getting lots of attention recently . At the BBC, we’ve been involved in this approach for the past year and a half or so. It looks to be very promising indeed.

To explain Linked Open Data, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote :

“It is about making links [between datasets], so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.”

Over the last few months we’ve been continuing our expansion of the amount of Linked Data that we’re publishing on the BBC /programmes and /music sites, to provide additional detail about episodes of radio and TV programmes, and more links between the data exposed from each site. So, for example, we’re now exposing segment data for Radio 2 & 6 Music programmes that link the artists in each section to the relevant data on the /music website.

This provides some really nice ways to navigate and mash-up the two websites. But we’ve also been wondering: what else could we do? What if there was a way to not only retrieve the data that underlies ...

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