Storylines

Jarred McGinnis, PhDLogomachy Ltd

Slide by Ben Gammon, Head of UX for BBC News online

Storylines• Journalists and editors see news events in

terms of stories.• Topic/keyword pairs and Slugs are mnemonics

to be shouted across news desks.• They are inaccurate, inadequate and

ineloquent for semantics, automation and packaging.

• Need a simple model that is generally useful.• Open Source Project (published under CC-SA)

with a schema.org microdata serialisation

Slide by Ben Gammon, Head of UX for BBC News online

Slide by Ben Gammon, Head of UX for BBC News online

Slide by Ben Gammon, Head of UX for BBC News online

purl.org/ontology/storyline

Storyline approach at the Guardian

Evolution of a Storyline – A Case of the Huhnes