Permanent IDs: or making good web 2.0 citizens

Tom ScottTechnical Team Leader, FM&T

Industry Context

Principles and trends

web 1.0it’s all about the left hand nav

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

web 2.0it’s all about the resource

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Media

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Principles and trends

Popularity

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Principles and trends

Comments, Descriptions

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Principles and trends

Related Media

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Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Web 2.0 principles are:

• it’s the data, stupid* (formally “data is the Intel Inside”)

• small pieces loosely joined*

• persistent IDs

*Tim O’Reilly

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If you can’t point to it it’s not a web 2.0 citizen

Industry Context

Principles and trends

Interoperability

Music

Interoperability

Music

• Open source database of music metadata

• GUIDs for artists, albums, tracks & labels

Interoperability

Music

This means when we talk about...

Interoperability

MusicKT Tunstall sessions

Interoperability

MusicKT Tunstall sessions

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MusicKT Tunstall sessions

Interoperability

MusicKT Tunstall sessions

Interoperability

Music

...we know it’s the same artist

Interoperability

Music

Anyone can use these IDslast.fm already are

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Programmes

Programmesbbc.co.uk/programmes

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Programmes

Programmes ontologybbc.co.uk/ontologies/programmes

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Programmes

Interoperability

Programmes

Interoperability

Programmes

All our programmes have:• URLs for each episode, programme brand etc.

(bbc.co.uk/programmes/:pid)

• can be accessed via multiple channels(a-z, genre, format, tag etc.)

• pages available in different formats(html, xhtml mobile, json, rss, yaml, rdf)