have anyone had any experience using Google News´ meta-tags “syndication-source” and “original-source”. They´re being testes since nov.2010 and, effective only in the news channel, shall point out to original publisher whenever the bot verifies that certain content may have been stolen. Got no other word for it. It´s theft.
I´m not sure if such tags will be affectively used for hard-news, since headlines about a plaaine crash will mostly bring up both kw “plaine” and “Crash”. It´s more likely to assist long-tail/less read/especific content to be indexed in an optimized way. Google bot rarely revists an ordinary page within a news site, of course homepages and other main frames are recrawled many times a minute, so it won´t help for old content. Maybe you colud diplay some links to these older pages on your homepage for a while with the meta-tags in place to see what happens.

Tchau

Klaus

An old moderation system is that of slashdot.org – it has proven effective over the years, and relies heavily on metamoderation to determine who is allocated the mod-points. Those who mod wrongly in theory should get points infrequently, and vice versa.

-Pete @ dirtygarnet.com

Seriously though, would the repository include raw materials? Unedited copies of press releases would be worth publishing, if only to give some idea what proportion of news was simple churn. What about raw data from FOI requests? (see http://www.thestory.ie for example).
And perhaps most importantly, the question that haunts all great oinine journalism ideas, who will pay for this wonderful resource?

Journalisted has a unique id for each article (‘story’ is alot more tricky, though we’ve talked about how we might do that once journalisted is published in rdf as it soon should be). We now have pingbacks for journalists – not quite the link to media coverage you’re talking about, but could certainly be extended (would probably need to be manual – can’t see how you’d automate this without multiple errors). We’re working on the press release / source stuff – happy to chat about offline. Think the whole ‘how to establish if this is a trusted source’ needs more thought.

Martin

I agree that the news story should not be the prime focus, as that ignores far too many channels, types of media (voice, audio etc), and formats e.g. blog post, comment, tweet etc. Instead one needs some generic term for content unit, a bit like Drupal’s ‘node’.

Indeed, ‘news’ would be one of the elements that I’d imagine the semantic web would define a news item by.

The move to the semantic web is well underway, I believe. Tagging, automated geo-tagging, the upcoming extended tweets (which come with alot more info about the tweet than the 140 character content), WordPress’ classification of blogroll entries etc. So I imagine Dr Goldacre can be confident that his ‘news ingredients’ is in the works.