If I understand the page correctly, it's about opening up BBC data, but I think it could use more explanation and examples about exactly what data they're opening up, and what you can do with it.<p>For example, my first search was for 'top gear', and I got 0 results.<p>I then tried clicking the Politics example, but was still left rather confused.
Hmm.<p>Not bad, but the data is surprisingly sparse.<p>For example (former Australian Prime Minster) Kevin Rudd[1] is described as "Politician". DBPedia has much more comprehensive data on him[2].<p>It does at least have sensible "sameAs" links to DBPedia and in some cases Freebase and NYTimes, so that is somewhat useful.<p>But I'm not clear what this is supposed to give that DBPedia and Freebase don't.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/80731fc5-49c3-459a-93f7-a56478a929b7" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/80731fc5-49c3-459a-93f7-a56478a9...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?query=DESCRIBE+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FKevin_Rudd%3E" rel="nofollow">http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?query=DESCRIBE+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdb...</a>
I searched 'Queen' knowing it has several meanings and I was curious to how it deals with this. The rock band and football club came up first.<p>Then I searched random things like; dog, cat, London, weather.<p>The vast majority of searches lead to music results even when you wouldn't expect it like the latter 2 KW's listed above. The results dont seem overly useful but glad to see people playing in this space as Google seems to be turning into one giant ad and so I like to see work being done in this area
No results found for Mr Blobby.
...
No results found for Noel Edmunds.
...
No results found for Katy Hill.
...
No results found for Jamie Theakston.
...
John Peel - Radio DJ<p>Well at least they remembered him :-/
...
No results found for Steve Lamacq. (he's even an active DJ for the BBC: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04j364l" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04j364l</a> )<p>Can't say I'm particularly impressed.