Royal Opera House: Why we love linked data and the semantic web

Why we love linked data and the semantic webEllen West | Jamie Tetlow

Royal Opera House

Content | Development

Some definitions

‘Linked Data’ | The Semantic WebTim Berners-Lee, Design Issues, 2006-07-27

Culture Hack DayJanuary 2011

Culture Hack Day (Weekend)

Some specifics

Hack by Clare Lovell and Matthew Somerville

Hack by Dan Williams

The BBC

BBC Programmes

BBC Music

musicbrainz.org

BBC Wildlife Finder

dbpedia.org

The old Royal Opera House website

Waiting room

A big sitemap

Verdi’s Aida – lots of content

Incoherently connected

Bloated CMS

The new Royal Opera House website

Domain modelling

Evolving prototype

Where’s it heading

‘Verdi’

…which links to ‘Aida’

schema.org

Schemas

HTML view for people

Data view for machines

Challenges

Opening up other areas of the business

Conclusions

Thank youwww.roh.org.uk