Web Directions

Fergus Pitt & David Peterson — The mashed up playlist

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• By:Guy Leech
• October 9, 2009
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Web Directions South 2009, Sydney Convention Centre, October 11.45am.

• Presentation slides
• Computerworld arti­cle
• Session descrip­tion
• About Fergus Pitt & David Peterson

Presentation slides

Session descrip­tion

The ABC launched three new socially net­worked dig­i­tal radio web­sites: ABC Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country in July 2009. They are the first of sev­eral ABC projects involv­ing con­tent aggre­ga­tion. As well as hav­ing slick, highly usable designs the music plat­form inte­grates with var­i­ous sources includ­ing MusicBrainz, YouTube, Last​.fm and Wikipedia. This aggre­ga­tion func­tion­al­ity graph­i­cally illus­trates the pos­si­bil­i­ties of Semantic Web tech­nol­ogy for an edi­to­r­ial organ­i­sa­tion such as the ABC.


Fergus Pitt will dis­cuss why and how the ABC is using the rad­i­cally trans­formed online envi­ron­ment to enhance its new dig­i­tal music radio sta­tions ABC Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country, and how the func­tion­al­ity and tech­nolo­gies relate to the ABC’s char­ter, edi­to­r­ial poli­cies and tra­di­tional operations.


David Peterson will explain how the sites were built with Drupal 6 and key ingre­di­ents that made the mashup pos­si­ble: Semantic Web, Linked Data, MusicBrainz, Last​.FM, Discogs and Apache Solr Search. He will cover the highs and the lows of Drupal along with the secret sauce that makes it all work.

About Fergus Pitt