Dear Colleagues,
Please don't forget to book for our meeting in London on Tuesday 1st
April 2014 at 14.00, preceded by our AGM at 13.00. Titled, *"Taming the
news beast - Finding context and value in text and data*", it will be
especially useful for anyone interested in applications of KO to
journalism and the press.
As content volumes and sources have exploded, for news producers and
consumers alike it has become harder to extract context and value. The
rise of digital publishing has cannibalized print revenues, and
companies have to be more innovative in packaging their offerings for a
competitive marketplace. Consumers too are faced with an unprecedented
information overload and need ways to ensure they see only the services
they truly value. As knowledge organizers, how do we address the challenges?
Two speakers from the BBC will start us off, showing how the development
and adoption of ontologies has enabled a revolution in the processes
behind news broadcasting. It will be interesting to compare this with
the story from ABC News in the USA, where our generous sponsor LAC Group
was brought in to revolutionise the production process. Cost-effective
options for smaller players will be addressed too, in a talk about
AnnoMarket, a pan-European research project to launch a cloud-based
marketplace for text analytics. And finally we shall hear from the Press
Association about semantic data management, tagging interfaces and
triple store management.
As usual the afternoon will be FREE for ISKO UK members and full-time
students, and just £40 for non-members. For more details please go to
http://www.iskouk.org/events/news_beast_April_2014.htm and book your place.
Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.
Non-members are welcome also as observers at the AGM.
Hoping to see you there,
Leonard Will
ISKO UK committee
http://www.iskouk.org
https://twitter.com/ISKOUK
#ISKOUKNEWBE
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