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BBC moves to more structured data in its relaunch

Behind the story of the BBC website’s recent relaunch is, among other things, an update to their content management system. In a post on the changes, John O’Donovan explains how the changes mean that webpages will have a more structured and semantic quality: “We will … no longer be using tables to layout the content, instead we will be rendering
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Data and the future of journalism panel discussion: Linked Data London

Tonight I had the pleasure of chairing an extremely informative panel discussion on data and the future of journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. On the panel were: Martin Belam (Information Architect, The Guardian; blogger, Currybet) John O’Donovan (Chief Architect, BBC News Online) Dan Brickley (Friend of a Friend project; VU University, Amsterdam; SpyPixel Ltd; ex-W3C) Leigh Dodds (Talis) What
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Data and the future of journalism: what questions should I ask?

Tomorrow I’m chairing a discussion panel on the Future of Journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. On the panel are: Martin Belam (Information Architect, The Guardian; blogger, Currybet) John O’Donovan (Chief Architect, BBC News Online) Dan Brickley (Friend of a Friend project; VU University, Amsterdam; SpyPixel Ltd; ex-W3C) Leigh Dodds (Talis) What questions would you like me to
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BBC and Google juice: the BBC responds

Demonstrating once again why journalists should not only blog but monitor incoming links, the BBC’s response to the recent story about ‘holding back Google juice’ in its linking came to my attention as I was scanning the incoming links to this blog. John O’Donovan, Chief Architect, BBC FM&T Journalism, says “nothing sinister”, and: “We are rolling out improvements to the
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