{"id":236,"date":"2009-01-09T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/?p=236"},"modified":"2009-01-12T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T15:23:16","slug":"the-bbc-should-engage-with-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/09\/the-bbc-should-engage-with-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC should make more effort to engage with Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3514\/3182728058_09f09c0738_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The BBC and Wikipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3514\/3182728058_09f09c0738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear: the BBC already makes use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>&#8216;s content and its structure (see <a href=\"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/14\/matt-mcdonnell-and-search-as-a-gateway-to-the-bbc\/\">this entry<\/a> about search at the BBC) but there&#8217;s a real reticence about getting stuck in and making a useful contribution to the project itself (Nick Reynolds, who knows what he&#8217;s talking about, explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/nickreynoldsatwork.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/05\/wikipedias-values-are-the-bbcs-values\/\">here<\/a>). Semantic web advocates at the BBC are busy building quite deep links into Wikipedia at the <a title=\"Look up 'API' at wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/API\">API<\/a> level (see this <a href=\"http:\/\/derivadow.com\/2008\/07\/28\/the-all-new-bbc-music-site-where-programmes-meet-music-and-the-semantic-web\/\">fascinating post<\/a> by Tom Scott about the way the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/beta\">\/music<\/a> pages now make use of open content from Wikipedia and <a href=\"http:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/\">MusicBrainz<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no shortage of collective and individual enthusiasm for Wikipedia but Wikipedia has become the backbone of the semantic web so it&#8217;s time for the Corporation to directly support the project by encouraging staff to become contributors or editors, by making the case for open learning content and by using the BBC&#8217;s resources and authority to improve its content. This is a direct and cost-effective way of using the licence fee to improve a vital piece of the global information infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>(updated this post a bit at 15:22 on 12 January).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me be clear: the BBC already makes use of Wikipedia&#8216;s content and its structure (see this entry about search at the BBC) but there&#8217;s a real reticence about getting stuck in and making a useful contribution to the project itself (Nick Reynolds, who knows what he&#8217;s talking about, explains why here). Semantic web advocates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}