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Linked Data at the BBC

I've been offered a 3 month contact at the BBC, to work as a data architect on thier Linked Data Platform team in London!

The BBC uses linked data to model all of the things of importance to their audience: people, places, events, news storylines, and general concepts which are used to group things together through tags. A lot of the power is internal only right now, used by journalists for categorising creative works, but more and more audience-facing parts of the website are powered by linked data.

I'm excited about seeing how linked data works in 'the real world' (as opposed to academia), and really interested to see how various semantic web theories translate in practice.

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Mon 30th of June 2014 at 12:00pm (+00:00)

Junior Data Architect, Linked Data Platform

BBC, London

Worked with an amazing team to boost the profits of Mr. Falafel in Shepherd's Bush and on the side helped with modelling the world as the BBC sees it, and learnt all of the corners to cut and ideologies to give up in order to develop linked data applications to improve the lives of people who don't know/care about linked data.

Key achievements include:

• Wrote some of the longest SPARQL queries I've ever seen.
• Disambiguated all the things.
• Added all the Things to DBpedia.
• Got my very own BBC/things guid.
• Corrected typos in public ontology documentation.
• Discovered rewriting a script from scratch in Python is easier than learning Scala to make a couple of small changes.
• Wrote an IRC bot script that replied in the affirmative if anyone mentioned falafel in the team channel.
• Accidentally made every artist in the triplestore owl:sameAs David Bowie.

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Mon 16th of June 2014 at 9:00am (+01:00)