Jeremy TarlingSenior Data Architect, BBC News

@jeremytarling

The Storyline Ontology

The Storyline Ontology

• the problem space

• collaborative model development

• using it with news content

• prepared data for #newsHACK

•story telling is fragmented into articles

•links between articles are hand-curated by journalists

•aggregations around topics (indexes) are hand-curated

collaborative model development

www.purl.org/ontology/storyline

1. annotate assets with topics

2. annotate assets with storylines

3. annotate assets with storylines

and storylines with topics

4. model complex storylines

#newsHack

• APIs are ready

• storylines and events have been made

• (tell us if you want more)

• content from multiple sources