New BBC Sports Website Makes Heavy Use of RDF

New submitter whyloginwhysubscribe writes "A technical blog post describes how the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to its sports website in anticipation of the Summer Olympics in London. The innovative content management system extends the already available dynamic semantic publishing, which enables their journalists 'to spend more time creating great content and less time managing that content.' The post covers some of the technical and lots of the HCI / UI design decisions and is accompanied by a non-technical overview of the re-design."

Comments

RDF?

[mpeskett]

Wish it was more common in writing to define an acronym before using it, especially one that doesn't appear in the article.

Apostrophe?

[jginspace]

the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to it's sports website

New submitter (and Unknown Lamer) could have learned how to use the apostrophe.

The one acronym that seems to make sense

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently they're talking about the Resource_Description_Framework.

Semantic publishing

[ygslash]

The interesting part is behind a link buried deep inside this post. It's the dynamic semantic publishing engine, which was originally used on their World Cup 2010 site.

Re:Ugh

[jd]

The BBC was one of the first websites to actually survive the Slashdot Effect (and report having done so), an achievement worthy of an award at the time. Their tech guys also invented the Dirac format (which they have yet to use for anything). The BBC multicasts at least some of their channels and provides the iPlayer for VoD-ing programs later (pity they don't support PPV for out-of-country, but it's a start).

As such, I'd say their tech guys have defined "forward" for the next decade for everyone else. It's good to see them continuing to experiment as well as adapt to the new medium. Research and development has pretty much died - where it ever existed - amongst many of the major television stations. Given their financial situation, I'm actually very impressed that they're putting money into technical innovation.