IA Summit 2009 presentation

1. Ubiquitous Information Architecture: Building for change and Web 3.0 Chris Thorne Information Architect BBC

12. Mobile Devices

13. Kiosks and multi user devices

14. Public Information/Advertising

15. Discound/Credit/Travel Cards and readers

16. Radios using the web

17. Even TV is changing – the web is on TV

18. And how is the web? :-)

19. Where we are now – web 2.0

20. Computers can’t help much

36. The BBC Semantic Ambition:

37. Progress so far:

38. Progress so far:

39. Progress so far:

42. Semantic Web - Layers of a cake?

43. Semantic Web - Example RDF statements Statement 1: Chris - Knows - Michael. Statement 2: Chris - Lives in - London Statement 3: Chris - Age - 34. Ie simple statements about things. Aka ‘triples’ - dbpedia.org has 116.7 million triples.

57. http://musicbrainz.org/artist/070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e

58. http://www.last.fm/mbid/070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e

59. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e

61. In fact, identifiers are useful for all websites……..

65. /Programmes Domain

67. Consider the Episode… Can have a parent brand or series…… Episode 4 of Top Gear series 10 for example…… What is the URI?

71. URI of Top Gear Series 10 episode 4. Oh dear.

72. URI of Top Gear Series 10 episode 4. In fact the URI of the document about this episode is: http://www. bbc .co.uk/programmes/b0087f0s

74. URI design and change http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0087f0s We’ve taken out everything that can change . We’re using our own identifier ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0087f0s ) to label it because there wasn’t a suitable webscale identifier already in semantic web for programmes, and because everything else (title, series, brand etc) could change.

75. URI design and change continued. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0087f0s If it can change (brand, title, series, episode number), we’ve taken it out of the URI.

76. Categories, taxonomys on the page….not in the URI.

78. URI design to maximise persistance. Know your domain. Work out your business rules. Think about all the things that might change (including each time you redesign the website). Take them out of the URI. www.mycompany.com/products/:product Might be a good place to start, where ‘:product’ is an identifier.

79. Designing for multiplatform So, how to deliver the document across multiple platforms, at the same URI?

80. Content negotiation example: