Taming the news beast: finding context and value in text and data

02:00-17:45, Tuesday April 1st, 2014

Location: University College, London

Don’t miss the first ISKO UK afternoon meeting of 2014 in London on Tuesday 1st April 2014 on the topic “Taming the news beast – Finding context and value in text and data”, organised by member Helen Lippell.

As content volumes and sources have exploded, for both news producers and consumers it has become harder to extract context and value. The rise of digital publishing has eroded print revenues, and companies have to be 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 value. As knowledge organizers, how do we address the challenges?

You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can register until March 28th.

The event is free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40.

All fees must be paid in advance – there is no provision for payment on arrival. Registration opens at 13.30 and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there. Twitter #ISKOUKNEWBE

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.