VirtualChaos - Nadeem's blog » bbc http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes ... or should I? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 BBC Opening Up http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2008/05/15/bbc-opening-up/ http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2008/05/15/bbc-opening-up/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 07:38:00 +0000 nadeem.shabir http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/?p=428

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.

, , ]]> http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2008/05/15/bbc-opening-up/feed/ 0 BBC Using PhotoSynth … http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/07/12/bbc-using-photosynth/ http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/07/12/bbc-using-photosynth/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:59:33 +0000 nadeem.shabir http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2007/07/12/bbc-using-photosynth/ The BBC is performing a technical trial of the PhotoSynth technology as part of it’s How We Made Britain television series. You can find out more about the trial here, and you can view the synths at http://labs.live.com/photosynth/bbc/ , for a list of all the collections related to the TV series click here – This list contains Ely Cathedral, Burghley House, Royal Crescent in Bath, Blackpool Ballroom, Scottish Parliament Building and Trafalgar Square

The level of detail in all these Synth’s is amazing and the technology provides a wonderfully intuitive way of exploring these buildings and places. PhotoSynth continues to impress and I can’t wait to find out when MS intend to launch desktop versions of the tool that we can use at home with our own library of photo’s.

I also found this Synth of Gyeongbok Palace in Korea, it’s stunning!

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