Making Structured Stories Tristan Ferne BBC R&D
Making Structured StoriesTristan Ferne
BBC R&D
“Data is just stuff, or rather, structured stuff: The cells of a spreadsheet, the structure of a Word document, computer programs themselves—all data”
- Paul Ford (@ftrain) I Dreamed of a Perfect Database
Structured stuff about stories
Split stories into re-usable components
Structure and label the components
Stories + Data = New things
Structured Drama
Home Front drama data
Home Front drama data
Story Explorer
Structured journalism
Structuring a news story
Even more interesting
Fragmentation
Atomised News
Efficiencies
Adaptation
Personalisation
Some challenges
How do we make structured stories?
What kind of stories work best?
What’s the best experience?
Structured storiesSplit stories into re-usable components
Structure and label the components
Stories + Data = New things in a fragmented media world
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