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,
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