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Summary David Rogers outlines how a highly-scalable RDF and SPARQL-based API was delivered, how a graph of highly-connected data can be managed effectively across a large organization, and their plans to open up access to the BBC's data from Bitesize learning resources, to the Radio 4 archive.

Bio David Rogers is Senior Technical Architect in BBC Future Media (News & Knowledge). Previously technical lead for the BBC 2012 Olympic Data project which provided the semantic and statistical data for the range of digital products produced by the BBC for the London 2012 games, he is now focused on BBC content APIs, including the BBC's Linked Data Platform. Twitter: @daverog

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