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Matt Shearer (@completedespair)

Innovation ManagerBBC News Labs

What is BBC News Labs?

It’s BBC News’ Lab“To drive & Promote innovation in News”

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What we do?

Innovation Events :

Innovation Pilots : JUICER

10 News Orgs

6 Universities

27 Prototypes

newsHACK.co.uk

Next #newsHACK in March 2014.

What are we bringing to Seedhack?

• News Content

• Tagged with Linked Data concepts

1

Get Content

2

Extract Concepts

3

Match to DBpedia

4

Annotate Content

5

Push to Triplestore

The Juicer6

Expose via API

NB - this is an R&D service

JUICER - content for REMIXING

1. 500k articles

2. Since 2001: BBC News & Sport

3. Since August: SKY, Mirror, Independent, Huffington Post, Guardian, et al

4. Content is tagged with Semantic annotation

5. And you can use DBPedia ontology for inferencing

JUICER – THINGS in that content

1. 32,705 unique People

2. 12,220 unique Organisations

3. 14,520 unique Places

4. 90,250 unique things (not People, Places, Orgs)

That’s 150,000 real world “things” that you can use...

JUICER – STORYLINE

1. Editorially Curated “News Stories”

2. 300 unique events & storylines3. For more info see:-

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbycvC2zzs

2. http://www.slideshare.net/BBCnewslabs/storyline-for-newshack-2013-jeremy-tarling

3. Both by @jeremytarling

QUICK VIEW of Data

... LIVE demo …

Thanks

Matt Shearer (@completedespair)

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