The Juicer Team – for #newsHACK 2013
This is The Juicer team from #newsHACK 2013: Jeremy Tarling Paul Wilton Viktor Tron Harry Robbins Richard Lynton-Evans
BBC News Labs
Connected Studio demo for BBC Trust & Press
Today I ran a demo of BBC Connected Studio content for BBC Trust and the Press. I was demonstrating some new Connected Studio concepts, alongside BBC Blueroom, R&D immersive reality, and more.
Preparing for #newsHACK at Shoreditch Town Hall
Furiously working on getting the BBC #newsHACK to be as brilliant and useful as possible.
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.
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”.
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.
BBC News Labs demo event at BBC Caversham
Today Jeremy Tarling and I ran a demo event at BBC Caversham. We were demo-ing the latest BBC News Labs work, and the BBC Blueroom were also there with their usual array of amazing, cutting-edge consumer equipment.
Outcomes : BBC News Labs “Summer Labs”, 2012
Today we ran a demo event to show the prototypes and outcomes from the 2012 Summer Labs. The event was an informal “Trade Fair” format, with 5 demo teams each working at a table to demonstrate and explain the prototypes.
Events & Politics Lab – 2012 Summer Labs – BBC News Labs
We’ve just run the “Events & Politics” Lab as part of the BBC News Labs Summer Labs events. Findings include:- There is an opportunity in the Linked Data “Events” space. There are plenty of opportunities in the Politics space, which could be leveraged with Linked Data. Events may not be the best way to model … Continue reading Events & Politics Lab – 2012 Summer Labs – BBC News Labs
BBC News Labs “Summer Labs” 2012 : Location
Today, slightly eclipsed by the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, we completed the first of our BBC News Labs “Summer Labs”. This Lab was on the exploration of a “Geolocation” problem space. We saw 4 great demos coming out of the 2 week Hack event.
Launching “The News Juicer” – for BBC News Labs
We are very pleased to introduce “THE NEWS JUICER”. This is the Semantic Prototyping Platform for BBC News Labs, which will provide real semantic data sources and APIs for the BBC News Labs “Summer Labs” between now and end of September 2012.
BBC News Labs is born
Today we started BBC News Labs – a small group of us from BBC News working to innovate and open new opportunities for BBC News.