World Cup Highlights the Use of Semantic Technology

July 19, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on World Cup Highlights the Use of Semantic Technology

July 19, 2010 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) used dynamic semantic publishing technology as an impressive demonstration of how a very large, mainstream website has added value and meaning to the Internet and to the event coverage.

ReadWriteWeb.com covered this topic in their article, “BBC World Cup Website Showcases Semantic Technologies”. Though Spain was ultimately the victor in the World Cup, the BBC can claim some glory in their online coverage of the event using a site boasting a comprehensive ontology that output automated metadata-driven web pages created in real time. The basis of this system was an ontology that described how World Cup facts related to each other using both manual and automated metatags.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.