Interconnected News

BBC are huge on semantic ontologies. Ever since embarking on semantic web for Olympic sports they have grown and grown in their diverse uses of semantic ontologies within their content areas. The next revolution for news agencies and media outlets is interconnected ontology services via linked data. This should pave the way for sharing of breaking news and alerts to dissemination of information in a free flowing standardized manner allowing anyone to query anything on the web and keep connected to what is going on in the mist of events in the global web space. The ultimate in web of open semantic question/answering services becomes more realistic. In process, increasing more creative ways for semantic advertising. The more enriched natural language becomes the more realistic one can address sentiments within text and more realistic predictions and forecasts can be made. Already, we have access to Freebase and DBPedia as well as SentiWordNet. The process could even make cognitive robots with deep learning a more plausible ideal that can think and interpret events, emotions, perceptions to a finer level of granularity similar to a human and to be able to take more decisive action. Web Intelligence via Semantic Web is the next evolution in information dexterity for an organized and meaningful view of interpreting actionable data. 

BBC Ontologies

BBC and TV Licensing

In Britain, almost every one is required to pay a TV license fee. However, it is puzzling as to how this TV licensing revenue is managed and spent. One of the disconcerting aspects is the quality of programming that is consumed on the BBC services which is quite disproportionate to the cost incurred to the TV viewer. One of the main reasons why so many people today have started taking up alternative options for more quality entertainment such as from satellite and cable. Recently, in news there has been inquiry into how the BBC decided to pay Mr Entwistle £400,000 in payments, even though his employment as Director-General was for such a short time. Furthermore, it is a clear reflection, on the fact that a huge proportion of the TV licensing cost seems to be paid towards salaries. Is it really justified for TV viewers to have to pay such high costs in TV license fees only to see it being used up to pay huge management salaries?

According to Wikipedia, BBC revenues amount to well over £5 Billion, employing about 23,000 employees,  and the corporation as it is called is owned by the public. "The BBC is a semi-autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament." - Wikipedia. 

If this is clearly the case, then surely the cost of licensing should come under review and should be lowered as there is no real justification charging so much to a TV viewer and then also paying such high renumeration packages to management employees. The revenues received do not even reflect the level of quality programming offered to the public.