7. from articles to storylines
develop a data model to describe a news
storyline and its topics
refine our content model to handle granular
updates (A/V clip, short-form, social media
update, long-form)
ask journalists to annotate („tag‟) these updates
with their storyline
18. people
a Person can have properties like „birth-place‟,
„birth-date‟, and roles like „President of Syria‟ or
„interpreter‟
Thamsanqa Jantjie
Nick RobinsonLara Clarke
Bashar al-Assad
19. organisations
an Organisation can have properties like
„address‟, „website‟, and can be notably
associated with a person, place or theme
20. places
Places can have a latitudes/longitudes and
parent features (an administrative district or
country for example)
21. themes
Themes are the intangible things that we might
want to classify our content by: „smoking‟,
„unemployment‟, „health‟
health
unemployment
smoking
22. tagging with a topic
<:thing> :type <:video>
<:thing> :about <:David Cameron>
but is this video clip really about
the topic of David Cameron?
26. curation vs automation
two ways to present tagged content:
automatic aggregations where all content tagged
with that storyline, event or topic is included in a
chronological stream
manual curations where a journalist picks and
orders content in order to tell a particular story
28. anything with that storyline or topic tag
automatically surfaces it in that stream
this could be the default/out-of-hours state for a
storyline or topic page
less time-consuming, but no control over tone
and sequence
automatic aggregation
30. more time consuming, but greater control
candidate content is manually selected for inclusion in
a storyline or topic page
attribution – manually curated storylines can be
attributed to a person or group (internally or publicly)
manual curation