This talk was given by Jana Eggink (BBC R&D) at the "Semantic Media @ BBC" event on 6 February 2013.

1. BBC R&D Datasets
Jana Eggink
BBC R&D
jana.egginkbbc.co.uk
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2. BBC Redux
• Set up in 2007, continually records BBC TV and radio channels
• Plus some archive programmes
• For research purposes and broadcast compliance checking
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Redux
• B. Butterworth: “History of the 'BBC
Redux' project”, BBC Internet Blog,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/
2008/10/history_of_the_bbc_redux_
proje.html
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3. Metadata
• Epg information
• Title, date, channel, short synopsis, genre
• Infax
• Description
• People (production and actors/presentors)
• Taxonomy (LONCLASS, TELCLASS) incl. genre
• Free textual timeline description, mainly for factual
• Pips
• Genre, people and synopsis
• Links into dbpedia
• Used for bbc.co.uk/programmes
• Subtitles
• Time aligned for display
• Speaker change indication
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4. INFAX
20090205_220000_bbcfour_all_in_a_day_the_city
Synopsis: Film about the 5th September 1973 in the city of Sheffield. Var s thru out of Sheffield incl.
cathedral,fire station, market, abbatoir, disco, city council meeting & police at work.
Timeline: Sheffield: cathedral seq Communion service with cu of Communion cup (4'54"-5'04") choir boys
singing (36'13"-36'32") (37'46"-38') fire station var s firemen's parade (3'09"-3'18") market var s shoppers
buying meat & sausages (5'39"-6'26") abbatoir var s cattle, sheep & pigs in pens (2'51"-3'09") var
s pigs into boiling water (5'04"-5'12") var s skins taken off pigs & sheep & insides removed (-5'39") disco @
Black Swan Pub var s go-go dancer & people watching (19'44"-20'43") city council meeting cu
Mayor's chain & mace bearer puts on gloves (20'43"-20'56") h/ a s mace bearer & mayor enter council
chamber (-21'15"), ...
Taxonomy: 171109 1 LO CHILDBIRTH 207566
171109 2 LO BIRTH (OBSTETRICS) 207567
171109 3 LO MIDWIFERY 207568
93145 1 LO SHEFFIELD (YORKSHIRE) 19719
104948 1 LO DAY IN THE LIFE DOCUMENTARIES (GENRE) 405297
104948 2 LO DIARY STYLE DOCUMENTARIES (GENRE) 419997,
...
• In British Library Reading rooms (or with Redux account):
http://bbcpilot.bl.uk/
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5. Infax at the British Library
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6. PIPS
20090205_220000_bbcfour_all_in_a_day_the_city
Display subtitle: All in a Day: The City Documentary looking at a series of
everyday events in Sheffield on 5th September 1973.
Medium Synopsis: Documentary looking at events in Sheffield on 5th September
1973. Steelworkers retire, babies are born, there are fashion shows, council
meetings and policemen on the beat.
Long Synopsis: Documentary, without commentary, looking at events in Sheffield
on 5th September 1973. Steelworkers retire, babies are born, there are fashion
shows and council meetings, crashed lorries and policemen on the beat.
Genre: History / Factual
Format: Documentaries
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7. PIPS – links into dbpedia
20100927_220000_bbcfour_the_savage_paul_gauguin_and
Display subtitle: The Savage: Paul Gauguin and the Construction of Paradise
Synopsis: Documentary which looks at the image of himself that Gauguin hoped to
promote in his book Noa Noa, about his stay in Tahiti.
Format: Documentaries
dbpedia:
• Paul Gauguin, http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paul_Gauguin
• Post-Impressionism, http://dbpedia.org/resource/Post-Impressionism
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8. Datasets
• TV One Week
• Snapshot of one randomly selected week (May 2008)
• BBC 1, 2, 3, and 4, excl. external
• Video plus full metadata, 406 programmes, 690 GB, 300 hours
• TV Archive
• Old (pre-Redux, ie pre 2007) programmes repeated
• Manually selected, wide range of genres
• Video plus of full metadata, 270 programmes, 521 GB, 227 hours
• 500 hours of Eastenders
• Video plus egp data and subtitles
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9. Other Datasources
• Snippets
• Radiotimes
• World service archive
• Elvis
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