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A dummy’s introduction to linked data (me being the dummy)

December 17, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

Tags: linked data, metadata, news rewired, newsrw, search

This is an edited version of a talk I gave on a panel about linked data and the semantic web at News: Rewired, on Thursday 16th December. The presentation slides can be seen here on slideshare. Disclaimer: I’m not a [...]

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Google’s new news tagging scheme fails to give credit where credit is due

November 19, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

Tags: google, hnews, linked data, metadata, transparency

Far be it for me to question the brilliance of Google, but in the case of its new news meta tagging scheme, I’m struggling to work out why it is brilliant or how it will be successful. First, we should [...]

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Library of Alexandria

How Metadata Can Eliminate the Need for Pay Walls

September 13, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

Tags: Associated Press, future of news, metadata, transparency initiative

This piece I wrote was first published on PBS Mediashift on 18th August 2010, and subsequently at j-source.ca on 31st August 2010 You have to admire his chutzpah. Rupert Murdoch, the so-called nemesis of public interest news, is now being [...]

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News Innovation Unconference

July 14, 2010   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

Tags: future of news, metadata, transparency initiative

The MST – with NESTA and the Web Science Research Initiative (now Web Science Trust) – organised a news innovation unconference to mark the launch of the hNews microformat. A number of journalists, developers, academics and thinkers attended and presented [...]

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MST

MST, AP propose news microformat

July 10, 2009   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

Tags: Associated Press, hnews, metadata, microformats, transparency initiative

The Media Standards Trust has today (Friday 10 July) called on news organisations to adopt consistent news formats for online content. The call comes as The Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust launch a new proposed news microformat. The [...]

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