http://blockslabpillar.com A weblog by Silver Oliver Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:07:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I attended the Data and News Sourcing workshop co-organised by the Media Standards Trust and BBC College of Journalism. There were two sessions running in parallel and Martin Belham will no doubt write has written about the crowd sourcing news and crime data sessions I did not attend. The first session was titled ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2011/03/04/data-news-sourcing-workshop/ A discussion between Stijn Debrouwere, Dan Conover and Jonathan Stray about journalism and the semantic web recently caught my attention. In particular I found the following quote from Dan Conver compelling: “[The] raw material of this information economy is essentially like oil shale: the latent value is obvious, but the ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2011/02/20/mining-the-oil-shale-of-journalism-with-semantic-web-technologies/ How the emergence of the semantic web changes our approach to information architecture View more webinars from silveroliver. Transcript How does the emergence of the semantic web and its associated technologies change the way we approach user experience design and more specifically information architecture? In Tim Berners Lee's original proposal for the web he ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/09/18/how-the-emergence-of-the-semantic-web-changes-the-way-we-think-about-information-architecture/ We express our identities through our collections. Online these collections take the form of Amazon wishlists, Last fm playlists and lists of friends on Facebook. Perhaps less consciously we have search histories, purchase profiles and a trail of cookies picked up from website visits. In David Siegel’s book Pull he ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/20/collections-part-3-you-as-collection/ The initial impetus for writing this series of posts was the increasing presence of information architectures driven by metadata and the impact this has on editorial curation. How does moving from a document focused view of the world to a thing focused view change the role of the collection? We took Wildlife ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/19/collections-part-2-collections-of-things/ In my last post I presented the case for the use of collections as an editorial layer on top of a metadata driven site.  One of the most common types of collection in online journalism are lists of links around a story - commonly referred to as link journalism. Link journalism ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/17/collections-part-1-collections-of-links/ How do you retain a sense of editorial voice and craft as information architectures become increasingly metadata driven? In my work with BBC Journalism we have been attempting to take the philosophy of Tom Scott's Wildlife Finder and applying it to News and Sport. Our starting point has been the Winter ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/03/06/the-importance-of-curation-in-a-metadata-data-driven-information-architecture/ I recently spoke at the News Linked Data Summit, a pan-news industry event looking at the potential of Linked Data.  Martin Belham and the Media Standards Trust have already blogged about aspects of the day but I wanted to add my slides and a perspective on the discussion. A topic that ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2010/01/25/news-linked-data-summit-and-native-to-the-web-controlled-vocabulries/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Government data panel - photo by Zac Beauvais"][/caption] Having just recovered from last week’s London Linked data meet up.  I thought it was time to collect together the talks and commentary from the day. Georgi and I are particularly grateful to everyone for coming, in particular those that ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2009/09/15/linked-data-meetup-london/ Georgi and I presented a jointly written (BBC, DBpedia and Rattle) paper at the European Semantic Web Conference a couple of weeks ago. My half of the presentation is avalible on slideshare. Media meets the Semantic Web - ESWC2009 -Part 1 View more documents from silveroliver. One point that I thought was particularly ... http://blockslabpillar.com/2009/07/02/media-meets-the-semantic-web/