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) to link their own concepts e.g., athletes or politicians using rdfs:subClassOf the particular concept.
Core Concepts Ontology
METADATA-1664 Corrected EventSeries label; reinstated hasPart; deprecated redundant concepts
The class of events in the BBC. This is a generic class to represent events (music events, historic events, sports events, politics events, etc.).
Event
EventSeries
The class of event series in the BBC, whose events share a unifying characteristic such as regular instances, e.g. Glastonbury or the Olympic Games
The class of organisations in the BBC. e.g., Businesses.
Organisation
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, etc.
Person
The class of places in the BBC.
Place
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.
CeremonialCounty
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).
CrownDependency
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
TraditionalCounty
This concept is used to represent intangible things or abstract concepts, e.g. financial crisis, midwifery, happiness.
Theme
The superclass of all things the BBC creates or talks about.
Thing
Language
Human languages supported by the BBC.
EditorialSensitivity
An editorial sensitivity for a BBC asset.
An editorial tone of a BBC asset.
EditorialTone
a subclass of core:Thing to classify animals
Animal
a subclass of core:Thing to classify vegetables
Vegetable
a subclass of core:Thing to classify minerals
Mineral
MusicArtist
a person or a group of people responsible for a musical creative work
a subclass of core:Thing to classify music artists
SoloMusicArtist
a single person responsible for a musical creative work.
a subclass of core:Thing to classify solo music artists
MusicGroup
a group of musicians responsible for a musical creative work
a subclass of core:Thing to classify music groups
language
A human language.
languageCode
A human language's BCP 47 code, incorporating ISO 639-1 code and optional ISO 3166-2 sub-code.
editorialTone
This property associates a Thing with an editorial tone.
A person's date of birth.
dateOfBirth
A person's date of death.
dateOfDeath
One or two words to distinguish between entities that have similar labels - often displayed to both internal and external audiences.
disambiguationHint
notablyAssociatedWith
This is a high level property aiming to describe a real-world association between a tag concept and any other tag concept. For example that Tom Daley is notablyAssociatedWith diving, or Glastonbury is notablyAssociatedWith music, or the editorial tone of 'relaxed' is notablyAssociatedWith the audience motivation of 'Help me unwind'.
This property associates a person with a thematic area he or she worked in, for example Annie Lennox with Music.
occupation
A person's place of birth.
placeOfBirth
A person's place of death
placeOfDeath
A short summary of what a person is notably known for
knownFor
The a label for a thing. A thing may have one label per language.
label
altLabel
An alternative lexical label for a resource
The BBC editorially preferred label for a thing. A thing may have one and only one preferredLabel
preferredLabel
Represents the fact that a thing (usually concept, e.g., Tom Daley) is the primary topic of a web document.
primaryTopic
primaryTopicOf
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.
sameAs
A short label for a thing usually needed for presentation purposes.
shortLabel
Human readable keywords that may be used in a programmatic fashion e.g., manchester-city.
slug
Start Date of an Event
startDate
End Date of an Event
endDate
person as agent in an event
organisation as agent in an event
place as location of an event
theme as factor in an event
Associates one owl:Thing with another owl:Thing above it in a hierarchy
isPartOf
Associates one owl:Thing with another owl:Thing below it in a hierarchy
hasPart
workLocation
Connects an agent to a place associated with their work.
knowsAbout
Connects an agent to a subject about which they have knowledge, suggesting possible expertise.
subEventOf
Connects an event to another (broader) event, commonly a series, e.g. Glastonbury 2024 -> Glastonbury
superEventOf
Connects an event to another (narrower) event, e.g. Glastonbury -> Glastonbury 2024