Open Innovation, Linked Data and Story Driven Journalism
Yesterday I posted an update on what BBC News Labs has been up to for the last few months:
Innovation
SKY NEWS and BBC News Labs
James Murphy and Paul Fairless from the SKY News team popped into BBC News Labs today.
BBC News Labs and Financial Times
BBC News Labs visited FT today, to discuss collaboration opportunities, following the #newsHACK.
Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK
BBC Academy put together this video to briefly explain how BBC News Labs is using Rapid Prototyping at #newsHACK.
BBC News Labs at Mozfest 2013
On 25th – 27th October 2013, Jeremy Tarling, Ant Miller and I visited MozFest. We demonstrated Storyline Ivy – a prototype from #newsHACK The News Juicer & News Labs APIs demo And generally talked about BBC News Labs
#newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio
On October 17th & 18th 2013, BBC News Labs in partnership with BBC Connected Studio, put on a 48 hour News Industry Hackathon called #newsHACK with 10 News Organisations and 6 Universities. BBC News Labs brought The Juicer, with our News Labs APIs, and a Storyline authoring tool called Storyliner by Outlandish.com for teams to … Continue reading #newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio
Preparing for #newsHACK at Shoreditch Town Hall
Furiously working on getting the BBC #newsHACK to be as brilliant and useful as possible.
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
BBC News Labs – Linked Data exploration
Added a post here about our work exploring Linked Data in BBC News Labs.
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.
Delivering Step Change Innovation: A new team for Responsive BBC News
Exciting times in the new job with BBC News. Working with Anthony Sullivan ‘s team, I starting a new unit to deliver a step change innovation for BBC News. Responsive Design!!
The BBC TPM Workshop in W12
It was the early 2000s. The time of outrageously creative multiplatform innovation. The best Technical Project Managers (TPMs) from across BBC Science & Nature, Education, Drama, and Entertainment departments meet to develop and document the best new commissionable concepts. The BBC TPM workshop – new ideas for commissioning Born to be wild : a reality … Continue reading The BBC TPM Workshop in W12
Climate Change Experiment – Innovation with Oxford University AOPP
In 2006 & 2007, my team at BBC Science & Nature collaborated with Oxford University Department of Atmospheric, Oceanographic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) on the largest climate change experiment ever.