Programme Ontology

Version :
1.0, http://dbtune.org/bbc/programmes/programmes.html (rdf)
Latest Version :
http://purl.org/ontology/po/programmes.html (rdf)
Published :
21st November 2007
Authors of this document:
Yves Raimond, Michael Smethurst

Copyright © 2007 the British Broadcasting Corporation. Creative Commons License

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Namespaces
  3. The Programme model
  4. Overview of Terms
  5. Ontology Terms
    1. Classes
    2. Properties
  6. References

Introduction

This ontology aims at providing a simple vocabulary for describing programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc. Its development (as well as the BBC programmes RDF service, also powered by this D2R mapping) was funded by the BBC, and is heavily grounded on previous programmes data modelling work done there.

This documentation page is a first draft. All feedback on either the ontology or this page is welcomed! Feel free to email the authors mentioned aboved.

The design and layout of this ontology document is based on the Music Ontology and FOAF Vocabulary specification documents, and was generated using the following hand-tuned onto_spec.pl SWI-Prolog script and HTML templates.

Namespaces

Several namespaces will be assumed to have been defined for the remainder of this document. These are as follows :

PrefixXML NamespaceDescription
po http://purl.org/ontology/po/ Programme ontology
tl http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/timeline.owl# The Timeline Ontology
event http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl# Event ontology
skos http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# SKOS
mo http://purl.org/ontology/mo/ Music ontology
dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ Dublin core
geo http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# WGS84 Geographic ontology
tags http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/redwood/0.1/tags/ Tags ontology
dcterms http://purl.org/dc/terms/ DC terms
frbr http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core# FRBR