Introduction
This ontology defines terms that describe creative works produced by the BBC and their associated metadata. This ontology powered reading & writing creative works in the BBC's triplestore, associating tags with them (about) and ascribing them more specific types (BlogPost, NewsItem, Programme) and audiences (audience).
# Some example triples about a creative work <http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/794274f1-d7ea-4ad2-9b36-c46ed55da9bd#id> a cwork:CreativeWork ; cwork:title "David Bowie leads tributes to 'master' Lou Reed"^^xsd:string ; cwork:shortTitle "David Bowie leads Lou Reed tributes"^^xsd:string ; cwork:description "Rock legend David Bowie pays tribute to US singer and former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed, who died on Sunday aged 71."^^xsd:string; cwork:primaryFormat cwork:TextualFormat ; bbc:primaryContentOf <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24703353> ; cwork:about <http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/7f26cc88-de01-42c4-b032-09b4a962216e#id> , <http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/831e7292-7904-4716-b1ea-af9e1cc2f068#id> . <http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/831e7292-7904-4716-b1ea-af9e1cc2f068#id> a core:Person ; core:preferredLabel "David Bowie"@en-gb . <http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/7f26cc88-de01-42c4-b032-09b4a962216e#id> a core:Person ; core:preferredLabel "Lou Reed"@en-gb .Metadata
| Created | 2012-12-01 |
| Last modified | 2024-04-14 |
| Authors | [email protected] |
| Version | 1.22 |
| Licence | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Download | Creative Wor ontology(Turtle format) |
Classes
Article
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Article |
| Description | This is the class of creative works that are associated with the Optimo service. This is to distinguish content published from Optimo from that produced by CPS. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Audience
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Audience |
| Description | Enumerated class of the audiences the BBC creates content for. |
| Range for | audience |
BlogPost
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/BlogPost |
| Description | This is the class of creative works that are associated with particular journalists or correspondents. The analysis, commentary and personal viewpoint of the creator is reflected on the blog post and the blog post is usually associated prominently with the name of the creator. BlogPost can have different types of formats. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Category
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Category |
| Description | A class to represent different categorisations of creative works from different clients. This class is instantiated in the clients' application logic models. |
| Range for | category |
Clip
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Clip |
| Description | The Clips subclass of programmes produced by the BBC. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork, Programme |
Commentary
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Commentary |
| Description | This class represents short form creative works in the shape of updates. These differ from the other types of creative works because they haven't got independent URLs as (primaryContentOf) from which they can be retrieved. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
CreativeWork
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/CreativeWork |
| Description | The class of creative works produced by the BBC. |
| Subclasses | Article, BlogPost, Clip, Commentary, ElectionAlert, Episode, LiveCoverage, LiveEventPage, NewsItem, Programme, TravelIncident, WeatherAlert |
| Domain for | audience, category, createdBy, dateCreated, dateModified, description, language, primaryContentOf, primaryFormat, shortTitle, tag, thumbnail, title |
| Range for | primaryContent |
Creator
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Creator |
| Description | An agent responsible for creating a BBC asset. |
| Subclasses | Correspondent |
ElectionAlert
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/ElectionAlert |
| Description | This class is used to describe creative works which are Election Alerts. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Episode
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Episode |
| Description | The Episodes subclass of programmes produced by the BBC. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork, Programme |
Format
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Format |
| Description | The primary format of the CreativeWork and it can be one of the five instances. This is needed for selecting the appropriate icon with which to overlay the preview thumbnail of the creative work. |
| Range for | primaryFormat |
LiveCoverage
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/LiveCoverage |
| Description | This class is used to describe that creative works which are coverage of a live event. (Note that this isn't meant to describe the fact that the event is live currently. An example of a Live Coverage creative work is the live event page covering live the England VS Australia cricket match, last saturday's football matches or last year's elections) |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
LiveEventPage
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/LiveEventPage |
| Description | This class is created to support the LiveEventPages from CPS. This will be soon deprecated for the sake of LiveCoverage |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Media type
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/MediaType |
| Description | A class to represent media types, e.g. audio, video, text etc |
| Range for | primaryMediaType |
NewsItem
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/NewsItem |
| Description | The class of all news items that the BBC produces. They can be textual articles, or media asset pages (audio or video) or live coverage of events (use the liveCoverage property). |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Programme
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Programme |
| Description | The class of programmes produced by the BBC |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
| Subclasses | Clip, Episode |
Thumbnail
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/Thumbnail |
| Description | Used to associate a Creative Work with the canonical location of the thumbnail. The URI of each of its instances is the full canonical location of the thumbnail |
| Domain for | altText, thumbnailType |
| Range for | thumbnail |
ThumbnailType
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/ThumbnailType |
| Description | Enumerated class of the allowed thumbnail types |
| Range for | thumbnailType |
TravelIncident
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/TravelIncident |
| Description | This class is used to describe creative works which are Travel Incidents. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
WeatherAlert
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/WeatherAlert |
| Description | This class is used to describe creative works which are Weather Alerts. |
| Superclasses | CreativeWork |
Properties
about
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/about |
| Description | Indicates that a BBC asset is about a tag concept |
| Superproperties | tag |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
altText
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/altText |
| Description | The alternative text for a thumbnail in case the URL is not resolved |
| Domain | Thumbnail |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string |
audience
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/audience |
| Description | Associates the Creative Work with an audience instance |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | Audience |
category
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/category |
| Description | The category property is another mid term solution for maintaining the functionality supporting individual clients. For example, the type of gossip is something that the sports pal use for the moment. The values of the property are decided by the client teams in collaboration with LDP |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | Category |
createdBy
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/createdBy |
| Description | associate a creative work with its creator |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
dateCreated
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/dateCreated |
| Description | Date created of CreativeWork |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date |
dateFirstReleased
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/dateFirstReleased |
| Description | The date something was first broadcast or published by the BBC (or, for films, the date of UK cinematic release) |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime |
dateIssued
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/dateIssued |
| Description | The formal date of an asset's publication from the point of view of the audience |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime |
dateLastReleased
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/dateLastReleased |
| Description | The date something was most recently published (including minor updates) or most recently broadcast (including unadvertised repeats) |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime |
dateModified
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/dateModified |
| Description | Date modified of CreativeWork |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date |
description
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/description |
| Description | The description of the Creative Work |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string |
format
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/format |
| Description | Associates a BBC asset with a bbc:Format instance |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Format |
genre
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/genre |
| Description | Associates a BBC asset with a bbc:Genre instance |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Genre |
language
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/language |
| Description | The language of the creative work, please use BCP47 https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47 |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#language |
mentions
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/mentions |
| Description | Indicates that a BBC asset mentions a tag concept |
| Superproperties | tag |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
primaryFormat
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/primaryFormat |
| Description | Associates the Creative Work with the Primary Format instance |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | Format |
shortTitle
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/shortTitle |
| Description | The sort title of the Creative Work |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string |
tag
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/tag |
| Description | Indicates that the creative work is tagged with tag concept |
| Subproperties | about, mentions |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
thumbnail
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/thumbnail |
| Description | Associates the Creative Work with the Thumbnail instance |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | Thumbnail |
thumbnailType
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/thumbnailType |
| Description | Associates the Thumbnail instance with a Thumbnail type |
| Domain | Thumbnail |
| Range | ThumbnailType |
title
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/title |
| Description | The title of the Creative Work |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string |
transliteration
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/creativework/transliteration |
| Description | Connects a BBC asset to a language + script for a transliteration |
| Domain | Asset |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string |
