Current and Future uses of Semantic Web Technologies at the BBC
| Dates: | 26 February 2014 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | Department of Computer Science |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Yves Raimond |
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The BBC generates a vast quantity of information, broadcasting between 1,000 and 1,500 programmes per day and generating a significant news output. The BBC has also accumulated a very large archive of TV and radio programmes, as well as pictures, texts, musical scores etc. since 1922. Managing all this information constitutes a major challenge.
In this talk, after describing current uses of Semantic Web technologies at the BBC, we are going to describe some recent work undertaken by BBC R&D to investigate how a mixture of semantic Web technologies, machine-generated annotations and crowd-sourcing can enable us to manage and publish large archives of content very quickly.
Speaker
Dr Yves Raimond
Role: BBC Research and Development
Organisation: BBC
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Lecture Theatre 1.4
Kilburn Building
Manchester
