A presentation I have given several times illustrating to non-technical people how the Internet can change information access in media portals. It focusses on the different ways of information organisation and architecture that are possible in digital media because of taking away physical constraints.
3. Sebastian Schaffert
• Doktorat in Informatik,
Uni München
• Senior Researcher bei Salzburg
Research
• Forschungsgebiete Social Software,
Web 2.0 und Semantic Web
• Projektkoordinator des EU-Projekts
„KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki“
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4. Salzburg Research
• Forschungsgesellschaft des Landes Salzburg
• Fokus auf interdiszipliäre IT-Forschung
• Wissens- und Medienmanagement
• Mobilität und ortsbasierte Dienste
• Bildung und Medien
• E-Culture
• Netzwerktechnologien
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5. Salzburg NewMediaLab
• Österreichisches Kompetenzzentrum zu
Neuen Medien
• „public private partnership“-Modell mit
öffentlicher Kofinanzierung
• Forschung in den Bereichen
„Multimediatechnologien“, „Social
Software“ und „Semantischen Systemen“
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35. most existing news portals
follow the classical, resort
oriented navigation like in
paper-based news - physical
limitation lifted to virtual space
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51. but intuitiveness only exists when facing a bear ...
from: user „randy_harris“ at Flickr
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52. User Interface ...
otherwise, it is rather patterns and idioms we already know ...
bread crumps tabs
dropdown selection
home link
tag clouds
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53. User Interface ...
• when visiting an online news paper, people
almost expect a classical navigation structure
• new idioms need to be introduced very
carefully (e.g. blog style, ...)
• more complex structures need to be hidden (in
salzburg.com: only in search, not in navigation)
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54. Managing Topics ...
2. assuming that editors become „knowledge
engineers“ that properly maintain complex
knowledge models was unrealistic
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55. Managing Topics ...
• need to do as much automatic processing
as possible (but this is limited)
• possibility to involve users!
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64. Project Deliverables ...
• Semantic Search (completed 2008):
http://search.salzburg.com
• KiWi (platform developed by EU Project):
• Content Integration Framework (2009):
integration and connection of different kinds
of content
• TagIT (2009):
geolocation & social tagging of news and
places
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67. Technology (Productive) ...
• UI: Ruby on Rails, AJAX
• Logic: mostly PL/SQL
• DB: PostgreSQL
• XML feed of news articles
• optimized full-text index, time index,
location index, resort
• 700.000 articles
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68. Data Import ...
Articles Geolocation
(XML) (named entities + geo field)
Database Fulltext Index
(PostgreSQL) (PostgreSQL built-in)
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69. KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki
• EU project funded under 7th Framework
Programme
• 7 partners, 3.8 Million Euro
• develops a platform for „Semantic Social
Software“
• builds on the „Wiki Principles“
http://www.kiwi-project.eu
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70. KiWi - Core Components
• content + semantic metadata (finished)
• transactions & versioning (mostly finished)
• semantic tagging (mostly finished)
• facetted search (in progress)
• social networking (in progress)
• personalisation (in progress)
• reasoning (in progress)
http://www.kiwi-project.eu
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71. KiWi - Applications
• KiWi Wiki (finished)
• TagIT (mostly finished)
• Dashboard (in progress)
• Blog (planned)
important:
content shared between applications!
http://www.kiwi-project.eu
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74. Where do we go?
• reimplementation on top of the KiWi
platform
• integration of community features
(social networking, sharing, ...)
• integration of different kinds of content
(news, wiki, blogs, photos, ...)
• backed by advanced Semantic Web
technology
(reasoning, information extraction)
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75. Book tips ...
• Richard Saul Wurman: Information Anxiety 2
• David Weinberger: Everything is Miscellaneous
• Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody - the Power
of Organising without Organisatons
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76. SNML Books (German)
Nachrichten 2.0:
Eine Analyse internationaler
Nachrichtenangebote im Internet
ISBN: 978-3-8370-5731-7
Erfolgreicher Aufbau von Online-
Communitys: Konzepte, Szenarien und
Handlungsempfehlungen (April 2009)
ISBN: 978-3-902448-13-2
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77. Thanks!
Dr. Sebastian Schaffert
| sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at
| http://www.salzburgresearch.at
| http://www.newmedialab.at
| http://www.kiwi-project.eu (KiWi Website)
| http://planet.kiwi-project.eu (KiWi blog)
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