Storylines,Topics & Tags
An explanationof the BBC News Data Model
for the News Archive
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Jeremy Tarling: Senior Data Architect, BBC News.@JeremyTarling
Matt Shearer: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs.@Completedespair
@BBC_News_Labs
linked data taggingthe audience can find and follow content relevant to them.topic tag: a person, organisation, place or theme.storyline tag: a storyline, or its component events.
why do it this way?it powers serendipity.
we organise by the “things” people want.
and connect with meaningful links.
contextStoryline is an open model.
BBC are now tagging new content.
the archive is not tagged yet.
topics - people
a Person can have properties like ‘birth-place’, ‘birth-date’, and roles like ‘President of Syria’ or ‘interpreter’
Thamsanqa JantjieNick RobinsonLara Clarke
Bashar al-Assad
topics - organisations
an Organisation can have properties like ‘address’, ‘website’, and can be notably associated with a person, place or theme
topics - places
Places can have a latitudes/longitudes and parent features (an administrative district or country for example)
topics - themes
Themes are the intangible things that we might want to classify our content by: ‘smoking’, ‘unemployment’, ‘health’
healthunemployment
smoking
storylinesstorylines are a way to link up and present content to the audience as a narrativestorylines are a special sort of linked data tag for annotating and aggregating contentstorylines can be tagged with topics
an example storyline
linking up storylines
linking up events
tag content with topics
tag content with storylines
tag storylines with topics…
so topics can connect storylines
before we finishwe can’t tag everything manually.
we can autotag topics,
and fingerprint into Storylines.
over to youorganise news content by storylineslink storylines together with topics relate archive storylines to current newssurface unexpected connected stories: “Death of Mandela” “Mandela’s life sentence” “Thatcher’s foreign policy” “Falklands War” …
Thanks@BBC_News_Labs
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