BBC Opening Up
The BBC is opening up and making its data accessible to development teams outside the beeb – they are also following the Linked Data approach …
We have been following the Linked Data approach – namely thinking of URIs as more than just locations for documents. Instead using them to identify anything, from a particular person to a particular programme. These resources in-turn have representations, which can be machine-processable (through the use of RDF, Microformats, RDFa, etc.), and these representations can hold links towards further web resources, allowing agents to jump from one dataset to another.
They have designed and published a simple but versatile ontology for describing Programme data which can be accessed here.