[sigCR] ISKO UK meeting. Taming the news beast: finding context and value in text and data. Wednesday 1st April 2014 (14.00-17.45)

[Leonard Will]

ISKO UK

Taming the news beast:

finding context and value in text and data

Wednesday 1st April 2014 (14.00-17.45)

Chemistry Lecture Theatre, University College London WC1H 0AJ

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", organized by member Helen Lippell. 
The meeting is preceded by our AGM at 1pm, to which interested 
non-members are most welcome as observers

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 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 truly 
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 28thvia the ISKO UK site 
athttp://www.iskouk.org/events/news_beast_April_2014.htmThe event is 
freeto 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 13.30and 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.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the 
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of 
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science 
and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been 
attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon 
meeting series (see slides and recordings 
athttp://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful third 
biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/index.htm 
<http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm>) last year.


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