news archive - bbc news labs presentation on storylines, topics & tags
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This is the presentation for BBC News Storyline data model part of the BBC Connected Studio briefing event for the BBC News Archive Connected Studio. The presentation is aimed at providing context for the participants, so that they have a view of how content will be tagged, and how it will surface in BBC News.TRANSCRIPT
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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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