Storylines, Topics & Tags An explanation of the BBC News Data Model for the News Archive Powered by BBC Connected Studio (January 2014 : Belfast & London)

Jeremy Tarling: Senior Data Architect, BBC News. @JeremyTarling Matt Shearer: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs. @Completedespair @BBC_News_Labs

linked data tagging the 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.

context Storyline is an open model. BBC are now tagging new content. the archive is not tagged yet.

topics - people Bashar al-Assad Thamsanqa Jantjie Lara Clarke Nick Robinson a Person can have properties like birth-place, birth-date, and roles like President of Syria or interpreter

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 smoking health unemployment Themes are the intangible things that we might want to classify our content by: smoking, unemployment, health

storylines storylines are a way to link up and present content to the audience as a narrative storylines are a special sort of linked data tag for annotating and aggregating content storylines 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 finish we cant tag everything manually. we can autotag topics, and fingerprint into Storylines.

over to you organise news content by storylines link storylines together with topics relate archive storylines to current news surface unexpected connected stories: Death of Mandela Mandelas life sentence Thatchers foreign policy Falklands War

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