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Education Domain “Autumn Asynchronous Workshop”

September 30, 2014BBC News Labs, Collaboration WorkAlex Norton, Asynchronous Workshop, Basile Simon, Bloomsbury, Curriculum, Education Domain, Jeremy Tarling, Karl Sutt, Linked Data, London, London Pubs, Lord John Russell, Melanie Moeller, News Storyline Ontology, Paul Rissen, Paul Wilton, Richard Lynton-Evans, Rosario RascunaMatt Shearer

A new opportunity has arisen, and the BBC News Labs Team decided to look into it. The question posed was “How might we contextualise the Education Curriculum with News and Current Affairs?”

The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast

April 2, 2014BBC News Labs, MetaJournalism, Speaking Appearences, Stage AppearencesISKO, ISKOUK, Jeremy Tarling, Journalism, Journalism as Data, Linked Data, News Storyline Ontology, UCLMatt Shearer

Jeremy Tarling and I both gave talks yesterday at ISKO UK’s Taming the News Beast. Jeremy went into some detail about the News Storyline Ontology, and I talked about how BBC News Labs were planning to tame the news beast in terms of auto-tagging the Journalism data we store – text, images and AV – “The … Continue reading The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast →

News Archive Creative Studio in Shoreditch

January 24, 2014At BBC, BBC Connected Studio, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, Stage AppearencesJeremy Tarling, Kate Coughlan, Linked Data, News Storyline Ontology, Peter Rippon, shoreditchMatt Shearer

Yesterday saw a great creative event in Shoreditch, put on by the Connected Studio team. I did some MC’ing to help out, and the brief included the context of the News Storyline data model.

News Storyline Ontology is published – Open Data Standards

May 1, 2013Achievements, At BBC, BBC News Labs, BBC Online, Collaboration Work, News OrganisationsLinked Data, News Storyline Ontology, Open DataMatt Shearer

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 – Linked Data exploration

February 3, 2013At BBCInnovation, Linked DataMatt Shearer

Added a post here about our work exploring Linked Data in BBC News Labs.

BBC News Labs demo event at BBC Caversham

November 22, 2012At BBC, BBC News, BBC News Labs, Collaboration Work, Demo AppearencesBBC Caversham, BBC Monitoring, BBC TD&A, Jeremy Tarling, Linked Data, Matt HaynesMatt Shearer

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.

Launching “The News Juicer” – for BBC News Labs

July 3, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News Labs, BBC Online, Rapid PrototypingInnovation, Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data, Matt Haynes, Monica Sarkar, News Labs APIs, Preethi, Summer Labs, The JuicerMatt Shearer

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

April 20, 2012Achievements, At BBC, BBC News LabsInnovation, Jonathan Austin, Lewis Buttress, Linked Data, News Labs APIs, Paul Wilton, semantic web, Silver Oliver, Summer LabsMatt Shearer

Today we started BBC News Labs – a small group of us from BBC News working to innovate and open new opportunities for BBC News.