BBC Ontology

Introduction

The BBC ontology codifies the logic that connects web documents, BBC products and platforms for which content is availalble. Currently there are 10 major products in Future Media which produce content for BBC online. The majority of those contain more products dedicated in thematic areas, for example Education propositions are part of the K&L (Knowledge and Learning) product portfolio.

Main Concepts

The BBC ontology defines the Class of bbc:Product so that the products which use the LDP to serve content to their audiences are represented. An additional important class in the semantic publishing logic of the BBC is the WebDocument class. This represents the instances of all online outputs that the BBC produces but also any web document tha contains additional information about the things BBC talks about. The major relationships of the WebDocument are with the classes:

cwork:CreativeWork

An audience facing WebDocument is one (of the possibly multiple) ways to publish creative works. For example: 

• the mobile web document http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/20763653 and
• the highweb page http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/20763653

are outlets for the same story, i.e., the story behind Mo Farah's training.

core:Thing

WebDocuments we store in the BBC's linked data platform usually have as primary topic one of the things that the BBC talks about. For example, Milton Keynes Dons is the primary topic of 

• The BBC's sport index page for MK Dons http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/milton-keynes-dons
• Their own homepage http://www.mkdons.com
• The wikipedia page for MK Dons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Dons_F.C.

Sample Data

The BBC ontology allows us to make statements about web documents as follows:

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/77fd06da-b489-3040-ace3-f8ed4f19d839#id> a sport:CompetitiveSportingOrganisation ;
    core:preferredLabel "Milton Keynes Dons"@en-gb;
    core:primaryTopicOf <http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/milton-keynes-dons>;
    core:primaryTopicOf <http://www.mkdons.com>;
    core:primaryTopicOf <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Dons_F.C.>.

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/milton-keynes-dons> a bbc:WebDocument;
    bbc:platform bbc:HighWeb;
    bbc:product bbc:Sport.

<http://www.mkdons.com> a bbc:WebDocument;
    bbc:platform bbc:HighWeb.

Ontology Diagram