Comments on: Data and the future of journalism panel discussion: Linked Data London http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/ A conversation. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By:   Bookmarks for August 25th through September 20th by andydickinson.net http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11425   Bookmarks for August 25th through September 20th by andydickinson.net Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:04:36 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11425 [...] Data and the future of journalism panel discussion: Linked Data London – Paul Bradshaw draws together the threads of how data and the web (and journalism) are converging as he reflects on a panel discussion around linked data. [...] [...] Data and the future of journalism panel discussion: Linked Data London – Paul Bradshaw draws together the threads of how data and the web (and journalism) are converging as he reflects on a panel discussion around linked data. [...]

]]> By: paulbradshaw http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11424 paulbradshaw Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:58 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11424 Thanks Martin - yes, I'm obviously aware of the standard and that can only help. Now, over to the advertising industry... Thanks Martin – yes, I’m obviously aware of the standard and that can only help. Now, over to the advertising industry…

]]> By: Martin Moore http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11423 Martin Moore Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:23:07 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11423 Thanks Paul - very helpful (I would have joined you had I not been at the Future of Journalism conf in Cardiff). To your point 'the advertising and news industries needed to be more active in defining common standard' - we (Media Standards Trust) have a big project trying to address an significant aspect of that. The Transparency Initiative (in partnership with Sir Tim Berners-Lee's WSRI) is all about how to make information - particularly provenance - about news articles machine readable. Value Added News (http://valueaddednews.org) explains how to do this using hNews - an open news data format that anyone producing journalism can easily integrate to their articles (Associated Press are including it in all their articles from November). Thanks Paul – very helpful (I would have joined you had I not been at the Future of Journalism conf in Cardiff).
To your point ‘the advertising and news industries needed to be more active in defining common standard’ – we (Media Standards Trust) have a big project trying to address an significant aspect of that. The Transparency Initiative (in partnership with Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s WSRI) is all about how to make information – particularly provenance – about news articles machine readable.
Value Added News (http://valueaddednews.org) explains how to do this using hNews – an open news data format that anyone producing journalism can easily integrate to their articles (Associated Press are including it in all their articles from November).

]]> By: Linking data and journalism: what’s the future? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11422 Linking data and journalism: what’s the future? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:13:06 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11422 [...] On Wednesday (September 9), Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University and founder of HelpMeInvestigate.com, chaired a discussion on data and the future of journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. This post originally appeared on the OnlineJournalismBlog. [...] [...] On Wednesday (September 9), Paul Bradshaw, course director of the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University and founder of HelpMeInvestigate.com, chaired a discussion on data and the future of journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. This post originally appeared on the OnlineJournalismBlog. [...]

]]> By: Alison Gow http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11421 Alison Gow Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:01:12 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11421 Very useful, post, thanks Paul, it's clarified a few things I wasn't really sure I understood properly. Linked data is, for me, one of the key ways journalists and their newspapers can regain their audience's trust. If facts, sources, quotes, images and video can be authenticated and put in context by a user there is, I'd hope, a greater chance of growing affinity and relationships with either the individual or the brand. Personally I think this means some some fundamental 'rip up and start again' approaches (both in terms of systems and mindsets) but as we move towards more OAuth technologies I'd expect this to become easier. Very useful, post, thanks Paul, it’s clarified a few things I wasn’t really sure I understood properly.
Linked data is, for me, one of the key ways journalists and their newspapers can regain their audience’s trust. If facts, sources, quotes, images and video can be authenticated and put in context by a user there is, I’d hope, a greater chance of growing affinity and relationships with either the individual or the brand.
Personally I think this means some some fundamental ‘rip up and start again’ approaches (both in terms of systems and mindsets) but as we move towards more OAuth technologies I’d expect this to become easier.

]]> By: Martin Couzins http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11420 Martin Couzins Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:09:16 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11420 Thanks for this, Paul. Had to leave before this session so good to see your notes. Thanks for this, Paul. Had to leave before this session so good to see your notes.

]]> By: David Sanger http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/09/data-and-the-future-of-journalism-panel-discussion-linked-data-london/#comment-11419 David Sanger Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:00:08 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3397#comment-11419 As for linking it would be most helpful to newspaper site to facilitate easy and accurate quoting with links by using javascript so that someone wanting to quote would select some text, click and get a popup with the selected text plus a short-link to the specific page. Bit.ly the URL shortener does that with their bookmarklet and it is very convenient As for linking it would be most helpful to newspaper site to facilitate easy and accurate quoting with links by using javascript so that someone wanting to quote would select some text, click and get a popup with the selected text plus a short-link to the specific page.

Bit.ly the URL shortener does that with their bookmarklet and it is very convenient

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