The BBC ontology is used to describe BBC concepts in the store. For example, the BBC divisions (products) publishing linked data and interfacing with the triplestore, the platforms for which we produce content and the web documents that publish or are relevant to the BBC's content.
BBC Ontology
METADATA-1662 adding Editorial Risk back in on int and test
This instance of bbc:Product is needed to associate WebDocuments from the BBC blogs.
Blogs
This instance of bbc:Product is needed to associate WebDocuments from BBC Education.
Education
Represents the official Facebook pages of the things the BBC creates content about e.g., the Manchester council Facebook account http://www.facebook.com/mancitycouncil.
Facebook
Represents the web documents designed for a large screen.
HighWeb
Represents the web documents designed for a smaller, mobile screen.
Mobile
This instance of bbc:Product is needed to associate WebDocuments from BBC Music.
Music
This instance of bbc:Product is needed to associate WebDocuments from BBC News.
News
Class representing a BBC News service, e.g., BBC Guernsey.
NewsService
Class representing BBC Sport editorial teams, e.g. BBC Sport Scotland
SportEditorialTeam
Represents the official home pages of the things the BBC creates content about e.g., the Manchester council homepage http://www.manchester.gov.uk.
OfficialHomepage
Represents the different types of platforms through which a web document can be accessed. This is needed to derive the correct web document for consumption from the appropriate platform. If there's no specification on platform suitability then the document is considered to be suitable for both.
Platform
Class representing products which create content about things. Within the BBC's scope, this would be one of the ten Future Media Products. Outside the BBC, this could refer to an organisation or company whose web pages we link to. Typically the official web pages of things (e.g., http://www.tomdaley.tv/) or their Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Product
This instance of bbc:Product is needed to associate WebDocuments from BBC Sport.
Sport
Represents the official twitter pages of the things the BBC creates content about e.g., the Manchester council twitter account http://twitter.com/ManCityCouncil.
Twitter
A web document is a page available from a content-negotiable URL on the BBC website or any web document to which the BBC points at.
WebDocument
Format
EditorialFormat
MediaFormat
Genre
This class is needed to support the different categories of web documents. This is meant to be extended by the clients with categories of web documents that make sense to their own product. For example, dynamically generated aggregations of content or editorially curated profiles of things.
WebDocumentCategory
Campaign
An editorial campaign which groups together BBC assets
An editorial sensitivity for a BBC asset.
EditorialSensitivity
An audience for a BBC asset.
Audience
Audience nation
BBC national audience location
Audience region
BBC regional audience location
A brand for a BBC asset - for example a PIPs programme brand like 'Luther' or a Journalism brand like 'Reality Check
Brand
CoreService
The primary access points for audiences to consume BBC content
CuratorBrand
National/local TV/radio services, World Service language services, curated groupings of online content
ContentBrand
Top-level programme objects and journalism brands (like 'Reality Check')
InfoClass
The information security classification for a BBC asset
NarrativeTheme
The narrative theme of a BBC asset
AssetType
The type or form of a BBC asset
OrganisationalUnit
A BBC team, BBC department, or any other part of the BBC
NewsOrganisationalUnit
A BBC organisational unit of particular relevance to News
ShelfLife
A period of time for which it is appropriate to promote an asset
EntryPoint
The preferred individual asset to represent a group of assets to audiences
Home
Differentiated audience experience boundary
Asset
The class of BBC assets — most commonly content assets
ContributionRole
The role in which a tagging:Agent made a contribution to an asset
A category of editorial risk which may apply to a BBC asset.
EditorialRisk
Associates a regional BBC service with an audience facing output such as a News website.
hasOutput
Associates a web document with one of the platforms for which the WebDocument is appropriate. If the WebDocument is responsive then this property is not used because the WebDocument is appropriate for both platforms. Only one of the two allowed values (bbc:HighWeb, bbc:Mobile) can be used for every WebDocument. Therefore the property is used with at most one value per WebDocument.
platform
Represents the fact that a web document has as primary content the creative work (e.g., a news story about Tom Daley is the primary content of a webpage).
primaryContent
Inverse of bbc:primaryContent.
primaryContentOf
Associates the WebDocument with the particular BBC Product it belongs to. This reflects the editorial branding of the product.
product
Associates a populated place with a regional BBC service that it is served by.
servedBy
Associates a regional BBC service with a populated place that it serves.
serves
Associates a Thing with a regional BBC service which reports on it.
coveredBy
Associates a regional BBC service with a Thing that it regularly reports on.
covers
Associates a web document with a category as defined by clients.
webDocumentCategory
Allows a format to transitively be a child of another format
subFormatOf
Allows a genre to transitively be a child of another genre
subGenreOf
Maps a BBC asset to its equivalent PIPs ID
pipsId
campaign
This property connects a BBC asset to a particular editorial campaign
editorialSensitivity
Associates a BBC asset with an editorial sensitivity.
This property associates a BBC asset with an audience for which is intended.
commissionedFor
This property associates a BBC asset with an audience to which it's relevant.
relevantTo
This property associates a BBC asset with an audience for which it's suitable.
suitableFor
This property associates a BBC asset with bbc:Brand instance
brand
primaryMediaType
This property connects a BBC asset with its primary media type
infoClass
This property associates a BBC asset with an information security classification
narrativeTheme
This property associates a BBC asset with a Narratve Theme
assetType
This property associates a BBC asset with an Asset Type or 'form'
subOrganisationalUnitOf
This property associates one bbc:OrganisationalUnit with another above it in a hierarchy
shelfLife
Associates an asset with a period of time for which it is appropriate to promote an asset
imageCollection
Connects a thing to a BBC image collection.
entryPoint
Indicates the preferred audience starting point within a group of assets
home
Connects a BBC asset to a BBC Home
contributionRole
Associates the contribution of a tagging:Agent with a specific role
languageHome
Connects a core:Language to a bbc:Home
editorialRisk
Connects a BBC asset to a category of editorial risk
broaderEditorialRisk
Connects a tag with class bbc:EditorialRisk to a broader concept with same class
narrowerEditorialRisk
Connects a tag with class bbc:EditorialRisk to a narrower concept with same class