Core Concepts Ontology
The generic BBC ontology for people, places, events, organisations, themes which represent things that make sense across the BBC. This model is meant to be generic enough, and allow clients (domain experts) link their own concepts e.g., athletes or politicians using rdfs:sublClassOf the particular concept.
Introduction
This is the core model for representing things such as people, places, events, organisations and themes in the BBC. These core concepts are all subclasses of core:Thing and the minimum metadata needed for each are inherited by the core:Thing. See the example below. This model is intended to be generic to allow different domain representations of these core concepts to come together (e.g., contributors in /programmes and athletes in sport are more detailed).
Sample Data
Below we have expressed some metadata about Queen Victoria using the core concepts ontology
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/1efbf3e5-b330-49a1-b531-b507ab027c96#id>a core:Person;core:preferredLabel "Queen Victoria"@en-gb;core: primaryTopicOf <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria>;
core:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Queen_Victoria>,
<http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.0cw10>, <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9439>;
core:disambiguationHint "British Monarch"@en-gb.
Ontology Diagram
Ontology Terms
Automatically generated documentation for the ontology terms.
Classes
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/CeremonialCounty
Description
These are geographic counties, often representing more permanent features of English geography, and to distinguish them from counties of England which have a present-day
administrative function.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/CrownDependency
Description
Crown dependencies are independently administered jurisdictions which do not form part of either the United Kingdom or the British Overseas Territories. They are
self-governing possessions of the Crown (defined uniquely in each jurisdiction).
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/EditorialTone
Description
The editorial tone of a BBC asset.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Event
Description
The class of events in the BBC. This is a generic class to represent events (music events, historic events, sports events, politics events, e.t.c.).
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/IntendedAudience
Description
An intended audience for a BBC asset.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Language
Description
Human languages supported by the BBC.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Organisation
Description
The class of organisations in the BBC. E.g., Businesses.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Person
Description
The class of people in the BBC. Subclasses of this can be all types of people such as politicians, athletes, historic figures, contributors in programmes e.t.c.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Place
Description
The class of places in the BBC.
Superclasses
Subclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Theme
Description
This concept is used to represent intangible things or abstract concepts. For example, Financial Crisis, Midwifery, Happiness.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/Thing
Description
The superclass of all things the BBC creates or talks about.
Superclasses
Subclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/TraditionalCounty
Description
The traditional counties of Northern Ireland were the principal local government divisions of Northern Ireland from its creation in 1921 until 1972, when their
governmental features were abolished and replaced with twenty-six unitary authorities
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/dateOfBirth
Description
A person's date of birth.
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/dateOfDeath
Description
A person's date of death.
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/disambiguationHint
Description
One or two words to distinguish between entities that have similar labels - often displayed to both internal and external audiences.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/editorialTone
Description
This property associates a Thing with an editorial tone.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/endDate
Description
End Date of an Event
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/eventOrganisation
Description
organisation as agent in an event
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/eventPerson
Description
person as agent in an event
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/eventPlace
Description
place as location of an event
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/eventTheme
Description
theme as factor in an event
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/intendedAudience
Description
This property associates a Thing with an intended audience.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/knownFor
Description
A short summary of what a person is notably known for
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/label
Description
The a label for a thing. A thing may have one label per language.
Subproperty
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/language
Description
A human language.
Subproperty
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/languageCode
Description
A human language's BCP 47 code, incorpoorating ISO 639-1 code and optional ISO 3166-2 sub-code.
Superproperties
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/notablyAssociatedWith
Description
This is a high level property aiming to associate any core thing to any other core thing. For example that Tom Daley is notablyAssociatedWith diving or Glastonbury is
notablyAssociatedWith music.
Subproperty
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/occupation
Description
This property associates a person with a thematic area he or she worked in, for example Annie Lennox with Music.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/placeOfBirth
Description
A person's place of birth.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/placeOfDeath
Description
A person's place of death
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/preferredLabel
Description
The BBC editorially preferred label for a thing. A thing may have one and only one preferredLabel
Superproperties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/primaryTopic
Description
Represents the fact that a thing (usually concept, e.g., Tom Daley) is the primary topic of a web document.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/primaryTopicOf
Description
Represents the fact that a thing (usually concept, e.g., Tom Daley) is the primary topic of a web document.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/sameAs
Description
Indicates that something is the same as something else, but in a way that is slightly weaker than owl:sameAs. It's purpose is to connect separate identities of the same
thing, whilst keeping separation between the original statements of each.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/shortLabel
Description
A short label for a thing usually needed for presentation purposes.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/slug
Description
Human readable keywords that may be used in a programmatic fashion e.g., manchester-city.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts/startDate
Description
Start Date of an Event
Domain