Ian Davis wrote:
Hi all,
You can now query BBC programmes and music data using SPARQL provided
by the Talis Platform. As I'm sure you know the BBC have been
publishing linked data for quite a while now and more recently we have
been working with them to spider this data and aggregate it into a
Talis Platform store. In this way we can provide full SPARQL access
across all the BBC data as well as faceting, full text search and
other goodies.
The BBC's official announcement to the backstage community is here:
<http://welcomebackstage.com/2009/06/bbc-backstage-sparql-endpoint/>
We have put together a number of demos and a lot of sample SPARQL
queries to get you started:
<http://api.talis.com/stores/bbc-demo/items/index.html>
The Talis Platform store is at:
<http://api.talis.com/stores/bbc-backstage> (the SPARQL endpoint is
<http://api.talis.com/stores/bbc-backstage/services/sparql> and an
interactive interface is here:
<http://api.talis.com/stores/bbc-demo/items/sparql/spared.html>). If
you need help using the store's features then
<http://n2.talis.com/wiki/Community_Support> may be useful.
We will also be blogging constantly highlighting cool uses of the data
on the Talis Platform developer blog at <http://blogs.talis.com/n2/>
Finally, thanks to all the amazing people at the BBC who have put so
much effort into building out a really important part of the Linked
Data Web.
Have fun!
Ian
Naturally, you can also explore the BBC's Linked Data space via:
1. http://bbc.openlinksw.com
2. http://bbc.openlinksw.com/void/Dataset
3. http://bbc.openlinksw.com/sparql
When using our particular data space, there is a facility for saving
your queries. The most interesting saved queries will appear on the
"showcase query" list. Of course we'll also put some our more
sophisticated SPARQL query examples up you easy assimilation and adaptation.
Enjoy!
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
