BBC ontology
The BBC ontology describes concepts and relationships whose context is specific to that organisation.
Introduction
The BBC ontology describes concepts and relationships whose context is specific to that organisation.
# Some triples relating to MK Dons, in Turtle format
<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.
Metadata
| Created | 2012-12-01 |
| Last modified | 2026-05-07 |
| Current version | 1.50 |
| Authors | jeremy.tarling@bbc.co.uk , tom.hodgkinson@bbc.co.uk |
| Licence | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Download | BBC ontology (Turtle format) |
Classes
Asset
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Asset |
| Description | The class of BBC assets — most commonly content assets |
| Domain for | home, transliteration |
AssetType
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/AssetType |
| Description | The type or form of a BBC asset |
| Range for | assetType |
Audience
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Audience |
| Description | An audience for a BBC asset. |
| Subclasses | Activity, Age, AgeRange, Ethnicity, FanGroup, Gender, Impairment, KeyStage, Level, Location, Nation, Phase, Region, Sexuality, Situation, StudyLevel, Year |
| Range for | commissionedFor, relevantTo |
Brand
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Brand |
| Description | A brand for a BBC asset - for example a PIPs programme brand like 'Luther' or a Journalism brand like 'Reality Check |
| Subclasses | ContentBrand, CuratorBrand |
| Range for | brand |
Campaign
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Campaign |
| Description | An editorial campaign which groups together BBC assets |
| Range for | campaign |
ContentBrand
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/ContentBrand |
| Description | Top-level programme objects and journalism brands (like 'Reality Check') |
| Superclasses | Brand |
ContributionRole
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/ContributionRole |
| Description | The role in which a tagging:Agent made a contribution to an asset |
| Range for | contributionRole |
CoreService
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/CoreService |
| Description | The primary access points for audiences to consume BBC content |
Correspondent
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Correspondent |
| Description | The class of BBC correspondents |
| Superclasses | Creator, Person, Thing |
CuratorBrand
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/CuratorBrand |
| Description | National/local TV/radio services, World Service language services, curated groupings of online content |
| Superclasses | Brand |
EditorialFormat
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/EditorialFormat |
| Superclasses | Format |
EntryPoint
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/EntryPoint |
| Description | The preferred individual asset to represent a group of assets to audiences |
| Range for | entryPoint |
Format
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Format |
| Subclasses | EditorialFormat, MediaFormat |
| Domain for | subFormatOf |
| Range for | format, subFormatOf |
Genre
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Genre |
| Domain for | subGenreOf |
| Range for | genre, subGenreOf |
Home
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Home |
| Description | Differentiated audience experience boundary |
| Range for | home, languageHome |
InfoClass
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/InfoClass |
| Description | The information security classification for a BBC asset |
| Range for | infoClass |
MediaFormat
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/MediaFormat |
| Superclasses | Format |
NarrativeTheme
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/NarrativeTheme |
| Description | The narrative theme of a BBC asset |
| Superclasses | Theme, Thing |
| Range for | narrativeTheme |
Audience nation
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Nation |
| Description | BBC national audience location |
| Superclasses | Audience, Location |
NewsOrganisationalUnit
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/NewsOrganisationalUnit |
| Description | A BBC organisational unit of particular relevance to News |
| Superclasses | OrganisationalUnit |
NewsService
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/NewsService |
| Description | Class representing a BBC News service, e.g., BBC Guernsey. |
| Superclasses | Organisation, Thing |
| Domain for | hasOutput, serves |
| Range for | servedBy |
OrganisationalUnit
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/OrganisationalUnit |
| Description | A BBC team, BBC department, or any other part of the BBC |
| Subclasses | NewsOrganisationalUnit |
| Domain for | subOrganisationalUnitOf |
| Range for | subOrganisationalUnitOf |
Platform
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Platform |
| Description | Represents the different types of platforms through which a web document can be accessed. This is needed to derive the correct web document for consumption from the appropriate platform. If there's no specification on platform suitability then the document is considered to be suitable for both. |
| Range for | platform |
Product
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Product |
| Description | Class representing products which create content about things. Within the BBC's scope, this would be one of the ten Future Media Products. Outside the BBC, this could refer to an organisation or company whose web pages we link to. Typically the official web pages of things (e.g., http://www.tomdaley.tv/) or their Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook pages. |
| Range for | product, product |
Audience region
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/Region |
| Description | BBC regional audience location |
| Superclasses | Audience, Location |
ShelfLife
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/ShelfLife |
| Description | A period of time for which it is appropriate to promote an asset |
| Range for | shelfLife |
SportEditorialTeam
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/SportEditorialTeam |
| Description | Class representing BBC Sport editorial teams, e.g. BBC Sport Scotland |
| Superclasses | Organisation, Thing |
WebDocument
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/WebDocument |
| Description | A web document is a page available from a content-negotiable URL on the BBC website or any web document to which the BBC points at. |
| Domain for | platform, primaryContent, product, webDocumentCategory |
| Range for | hasOutput, primaryContentOf, primaryTopicOf |
WebDocumentCategory
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/WebDocumentCategory |
| Description | This class is needed to support the different categories of web documents. This is meant to be extended by the clients with categories of web documents that make sense to their own product. For example, dynamically generated aggregations of content or editorially curated profiles of things. |
| Range for | webDocumentCategory |
Properties
assetType
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/assetType |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with an Asset Type or 'form' |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | AssetType |
brand
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/brand |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with bbc:Brand instance |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Brand |
campaign
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/campaign |
| Description | This property connects a BBC asset to a particular editorial campaign |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Campaign |
commissionedFor
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/commissionedFor |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with an audience for which is intended. |
| Superproperties | relevantTo |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Audience |
contributionRole
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/contributionRole |
| Description | Associates the contribution of a tagging:Agent with a specific role |
| Range | ContributionRole |
contributor
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/contributor |
| Description | Connects a BBC asset to a contributor |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
coveredBy
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/coveredBy |
| Description | Associates a Thing with a regional BBC service which reports on it. |
| Domain | Thing |
covers
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/covers |
| Description | Associates a regional BBC service with a Thing that it regularly reports on. |
| Range | Thing |
editorialSensitivity
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/editorialSensitivity |
| Description | Associates a BBC asset with an editorial sensitivity. |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
entryPoint
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/entryPoint |
| Description | Indicates the preferred audience starting point within a group of assets |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | EntryPoint |
hasOutput
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/hasOutput |
| Description | Associates a regional BBC service with an audience facing output such as a News website. |
| Domain | NewsService |
| Range | WebDocument |
home
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/home |
| Description | Connects a BBC asset to a BBC Home |
| Domain | Asset |
| Range | Home |
imageCollection
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/imageCollection |
| Description | Connects a thing to a BBC image collection. |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | ImageLocator |
infoClass
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/infoClass |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with an information security classification |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | InfoClass |
languageHome
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/languageHome |
| Description | Connects a core:Language to a bbc:Home |
| Domain | Language |
| Range | Home |
narrativeTheme
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/narrativeTheme |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with a Narratve Theme |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | NarrativeTheme |
pipsId
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/pipsId |
| Description | Maps a BBC asset to its equivalent PIPs ID |
| Range | w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#String |
platform
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/platform |
| Description | Associates a web document with one of the platforms for which the WebDocument is appropriate. If the WebDocument is responsive then this property is not used because the WebDocument is appropriate for both platforms. Only one of the two allowed values (bbc:HighWeb, bbc:Mobile) can be used for every WebDocument. Therefore the property is used with at most one value per WebDocument. |
| Domain | WebDocument |
| Range | Platform |
primaryContent
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/primaryContent |
| Description | Represents the fact that a web document has as primary content the creative work (e.g., a news story about Tom Daley is the primary content of a webpage). |
| Domain | WebDocument |
| Range | CreativeWork |
primaryContentOf
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/primaryContentOf |
| Description | Inverse of bbc:primaryContent. |
| Domain | CreativeWork |
| Range | WebDocument |
primaryMediaType
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/primaryMediaType |
| Description | This property connects a BBC asset with its primary media type |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | MediaType |
product
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/product |
| Description | Associates the WebDocument with the particular BBC Product it belongs to. This reflects the editorial branding of the product. |
| Domain | WebDocument |
| Range | Product |
relevantTo
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/relevantTo |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with an audience to which it's relevant. |
| Subproperties | commissionedFor |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | Audience |
servedBy
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/servedBy |
| Description | Associates a populated place with a regional BBC service that it is served by. |
| Domain | Place |
| Range | NewsService |
serves
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/serves |
| Description | Associates a regional BBC service with a populated place that it serves. |
| Domain | NewsService |
| Range | Place |
shelfLife
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/shelfLife |
| Description | Associates an asset with a period of time for which it is appropriate to promote an asset |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | ShelfLife |
subFormatOf
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/subFormatOf |
| Description | Allows a format to transitively be a child of another format |
| Domain | Format |
| Range | Format |
subGenreOf
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/subGenreOf |
| Description | Allows a genre to transitively be a child of another genre |
| Domain | Genre |
| Range | Genre |
subOrganisationalUnitOf
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/subOrganisationalUnitOf |
| Description | This property associates one bbc:OrganisationalUnit with another above it in a hierarchy |
| Superproperties | isPartOf |
| Domain | OrganisationalUnit |
| Range | OrganisationalUnit |
suitableFor
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/suitableFor |
| Description | This property associates a BBC asset with an audience for which it's suitable. |
| Domain | w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing |
| Range | SuitableAgeRange |
webDocumentCategory
| URI | http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/bbc/webDocumentCategory |
| Description | Associates a web document with a category as defined by clients. |
| Domain | WebDocument |
| Range | WebDocumentCategory |