Working on Storyline in the lead up to #newsHACK
The team took some time out at the end of a hard day, at The Bree Louise, to further discuss the News Storyline Ontology, and how we might use complex Storylines at #newsHACK.
Yearly Archives: 2013
BBC News Labs – new corporate website
Thanks to the massively helpful Steve Alderton (connected studio), we’ve just launched the new BBC News Labs website, as part of our new Partnership with BBC Connected Studio. We are officially “Powered by BBC Connected Studio”.
Italy – Perugia – Summer Holidays
Great trip with some old friends. Amazing food, plenty of evenings in the balmy hill breeze.
Visit to San Francisco – Summer 2013
Just had a great trip to see the San Francisco side Shearers. Great time!!
BBC News Labs now based in the BBC R&D Central Lab, London
I am now very pleased to have moved the BBC News Labs main location to the BBC R&D Central Lab in Euston, London. We are based there now with our partners BBC Connected Studio, as well as UCL Computer Science, and the BBC R&D “Internet Research and Future Services” department.
BBC News Labs at ISKO 2013, UCL, London
Today Jeremy Tarling and I presented at ISKO 2013, in UCL. You can see the BBC News Labs at ISKO presentation here on Slideshare.
New Job: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs
Today I am moving my attentions fulltime to BBC News Labs as the “innovation Manager”. B-Rilliant. We are (I am) teaming up with BBC Connected Studio to make to build the existing activities into a fully fledged innovation incubator. We are planning to “second” a % time from various News team members into the lab, … Continue reading New Job: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs
New Partnership: BBC News Labs & BBC Connected Studio
I am very pleased that we have now made BBC News Labs part of the BBC Connected Studio.
BBC News Labs APIs at Yahoo! HackEurope 2013
On 29th April 2013, the we (BBC News Labs team) took the News Labs APIs, and all the data held in The Juicer, to Yahoo! Hack Europe. You can see the BBC News Labs at Yahoo! Hack Europe presentation here and the video of the News Labs presentation here. BBC News Labs Presentation at Yahoo! … Continue reading BBC News Labs APIs at Yahoo! HackEurope 2013
News Storyline Ontology is published – Open Data Standards
Very pleased that Jeremy Tarling and partners published the News Storyline Ontology today. This is looking favourable as the cornerstone of BBC News’ future curation data structure. This has been some great work, coming out of News Labs’ “PR & Outreach” workstream.
Launching a new BBC News Agile Delivery Process
In the past few weeks, we (the BBC News Project Managers and I) have rolled out a new Portfolio Delivery process, based around the phases in the BBC’s “Product Lifecycle”. This figure shows how we are now managing EPIC-level features through the product development process. What does this mean? What is the benefit? This means that we … Continue reading Launching a new BBC News Agile Delivery Process
Brighton Trip – with Wendy
Just had a wonderful trip to Brighton with Wendy, and thanks to Michelle and Tasha for springing us!!
James Magnus is 40 Years Old – meet for dinner
An amusing night with Asha, Jim, Ian and Wendy; nice dinner, then a few drinks out near Westminster,… there’s not much to do near there!
BBC News Labs – Linked Data exploration
Added a post here about our work exploring Linked Data in BBC News Labs.
The Master and Margarita at The Barbican
Amazing performance of The Master & Margarita at The Barbican. Brilliant.