The importance of curation in a metadata driven information architecture
How do you retain a sense of editorial voice and craft as information architectures become increasingly metadata driven?
In my work with BBC Journalism we have been attempting to take the philosophy of Tom Scott’s Wildlife Finder and applying it to News and Sport. Our starting point has been the Winter Olympics.
The step change was in [...]
News Linked Data Summit and the call for native to the web vocabulries
I recently spoke at the News Linked Data Summit, a pan-news industry event looking at the potential of Linked Data. Martin Belham and the Media Standards Trust have already blogged about aspects of the day but I wanted to add my slides and a perspective on the discussion.
A topic that interests me is the relationship [...]
Linked Data Meetup London
Having just recovered from last week’s London Linked data meet up. I thought it was time to collect together the talks and commentary from the day.
Georgi and I are particularly grateful to everyone for coming, in particular those that spoke. A special thank you also to Talis for picking up the bar tab.
I think Zach [...]
Media meets the Semantic Web
Georgi and I presented a jointly written (BBC, DBpedia and Rattle) paper at the European Semantic Web Conference a couple of weeks ago. My half of the presentation is avalible on slideshare.
Media meets the Semantic Web – ESWC2009 -Part 1
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One point that I thought was particularly interesting was the potential role [...]
Web-scalable narratives
As we build larger and larger websites it becomes increasingly difficult to scale meaningful user journeys. Success is dependent on indentifying your key user journeys (narrative structures) and ensuring these can be dynamically populated as the site grows.
Some of the largest and most successful websites have taken simple narrative structures and made them scale [...]