The BBC announced yesterday that they are now testing a new Music knowledge base service that aggregates content from the open source DBPedia and other sources. 

This is very exciting from my perspective, since my team has been working with Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) for the last couple years to solve problems in the Digital Asset Management space.

I strongly believe that the use of open standards and ontologies is the correct approach to the ability to share and interop with metadata on the web and will lead to more connected media and consumer experiences in the future.