My presentation at the 2nd London Linked Data meet up. Introduces Wildlife Finder (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder): the types of resources it describes and the ontology used to describe it.

1. Apis and APIs
A wildlife ontology
Tom Scott

2. What are we trying to do?

3. Link people to content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a2gemma/1448178195/

4. Explore the natural world through the BBC archive

5. You can’t browse by meaning to build your own
story – creating journeys through the things that
you care about

6. Pimp our programmes!

7. Make our website our API

8. Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank
Conservation
skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation
Status
Ecozone
Wildlife Object
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder

9. Linnaean taxonomy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/kingdom/animal

10. Linked to habitats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats

11. ...and adaptations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations

12. and to ecozones
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ecozones

13. Collections because "Curation is the process by
which aggregate data is imbued with personalised
trust"*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/collections
* http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/02/14/of-lazy-tandoori-and-epicuration/

14. All resources have URLs

15. Mashing data from across the web
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12614773@N07/2328786334/

16. Clips live at /programmes but are transcluded onto
Wildlife Finder pages
Silos http://www.flickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/

17. Programme episodes
[integrated using /programmes RDF]

18. News stories live on the news site

19. Wikipedia
[aka our CMS for background information]

20. WWF... IUCN... University of Michigan Museum of
Zoology... ZSL

21. DBpedia as a controlled vocabulary
Silos http://www.flickr.com/photos/bottleleaf/2218990208/

22. Collection Taxon Rank Taxon Rank
Conservation
skos:Category RedListStatus Habitat Adaptation
Status
Ecozone
Identifiers for resources within the ontology

23. Programmes
News Stories Brand
Index
Series Expeditions
News Story
DBpedia URI
Episode Story
DBpedia URI
or known URL
DBpedia URI
Clip
Natural History
Known URI
Links content and concepts together

24. “Raw data now!”

25. I can haz RDF

26. I’d like this resource
about Lions as RDF/XML
please
RDF/XML you say? But
of course
Content negotiation
[or add .rdf to the end of the URL
e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Tiger.rdf]

27. Going live tomorrow... but sneak peak today.
Note: we haven’t published adaptations RDF yet

28. More info
http://purl.org/ontology/wo/

29. oh and we also have a little microformating
http://microformats.org/wiki/species

30. Tom Scott
tom.scott@bbc.co.uk