Programmes Ontology

[matth]

Hiya,

Something I didn't get a chance to talk about as I had to leave
before
the Speed Geeks talks yesterday, but some clever guys at BBC have come
up with an ontology on how to describe AV Programmes.

Not sure if it's helpful to any of the efforts here but just in
case ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/programmes/2009-09-07.shtml

Here it is implemented too ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gfqbd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gfqbd.json

Cheers,

Matt

[Raynor Vliegendhart]

It is certainly interesting, but I wonder whether it is possible to extract this kind of metadata from arbitrary multimedia.

Having said that, I do think a subset could be supported. For example, extracting the genre from a video should be possible in the future (I know a colleage that's researching genre detection).

Kind regards,

Raynor

[Laurian]

This reminds me of the former URIPlay, now called Atlas API (by http://metabroadcast.com ... AFAIK is a spin-off from BBC or something? I met Chris Jackson once but I don't recall the actual story)

http://docs.atlasapi.org

Laurian

[Matt Haynes]

Yep, 

The atlas api was built by a load ex-BBC staff so I think there is some overlap between the two :)

Not sure how scaleable this is to something like UGC. For example YouTube videos. I guess it could help as a framework to describe a lot of other video / audio online though.

Cheers,

Matt