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Storylines,Topics & Tags

An explanationof the BBC News Data Model

for the News Archive

(January 2014 : Belfast & London)Powered by BBC Connected StudioPowered by BBC Connected Studio

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Jeremy Tarling: Senior Data Architect, BBC News.@JeremyTarling

Matt Shearer: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs.@Completedespair

@BBC_News_Labs

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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.

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why do it this way?it powers serendipity.

we organise by the “things” people want.

and connect with meaningful links.

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contextStoryline is an open model.

BBC are now tagging new content.

the archive is not tagged yet.

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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

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topics - organisations

an Organisation can have properties like ‘address’, ‘website’, and can be notably associated with a person, place or theme

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topics - places

Places can have a latitudes/longitudes and parent features (an administrative district or country for example)

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topics - themes

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

healthunemployment

smoking

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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

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an example storyline

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linking up storylines

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linking up events

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tag content with topics

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tag content with storylines

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tag storylines with topics…

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so topics can connect storylines

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before we finishwe can’t tag everything manually.

we can autotag topics,

and fingerprint into Storylines.

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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” …

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Thanks@BBC_News_Labs

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