BBC Signs Four MOU with Europeana, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute, and Mozilla

From the British Broadcasting Company:

The BBC today signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) supporting free and open internet technologies with the Open Data Institute, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation and the Europeana Foundation.
These agreements will enable closer collaboration between the BBC and each of the four organisations on a range of mutual interests, including the release of structured open data and the use of open standards in web development. One aim of this agreement is to give clear technical standards and models to organisations who want to work with the BBC and give those using the internet a deeper understanding of the technologies involved. The MoUs also bring together several existing areas of research and provide a framework to explore future opportunities.
Through this and other initiatives, the BBC aims to be a catalyst for open innovation by publishing clear technical standards, models, expertise and, where feasible, data. This approach encourages greater collaboration with the wider industry and the development of new technologies and digital services that can bring additional benefits to audiences.
The BBC has been publishing linked open data for some time, most notably as part of the /programmes service where machine-readable information about the programme schedule is made available online, or the successful Olympics Data Service, which underpinned 10,490 athlete pages on the BBC sport website during the 2012 Olympics.

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