Re: rNews RDFa in BBC News

On 1/23/13 3:27 AM, Jeremy Tarling wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I am working with BBC News on implementing some RDFa in article pages 
> on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news. rNews seems like the best candidate for 
> us in terms of expressiveness and wider adoption, so I am thinking, as 
> a first iteration, we will add something like this to article pages:
>
> <head prefix="rnews: http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-10-07#"
> resource="{published URL}"
> typeof="rnews:NewsItem">
> <meta property="rnews:headline" content="{headline}"/>
> <meta property="rnews:description" content="{description}"/>
> <meta property="rnews:thumbnailUrl" content="{thumbnail URL}"/>
> <meta property="rnews:datePublished" content="{date published}"/>
> <meta property="rnews:creator" content="<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news>"/>
> …
> </head>
>
> We are currently working on an internal project to identify the 
> real-world concepts mentioned in our stories and associate them back 
> with the published article; when this is available we will add the 
> following:
>
> <meta property="rnews:about" content="{GUID for 
> person/place/organisation}"/>
> <meta property="rnews:mentions" content="{GUID for 
> person/place/organisation} "/>
>
> Separately we will publish the BBC GUIDs we have created for 
> person/place/organisations with sameAs links towikidata/freebase/dbpedia.
>
> Does anyone see any problems with this approach?
>
> Thanks
>
> JT
>
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> Jeremy Tarling
> Data Architect, BBC News
> 4th Floor New Broadcasting House
> London W1A 1AA
>
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Would it be possible for you to denote BBC News (an organization) using 
the identifier: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news#this> (or even #org etc..) 
rather than <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news> ? Beyond that, everything else 
looks fine to me.

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Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 11:56:29 UTC