[Sigia-l] the role of IAs in Data Journalism?

[Stephen Collins]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:06 PM, eric scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:
> My question is what role can IAs have in these activities?

Ah! A subject to tweak my many interests and bring me out of lurk mode
- journalism (my training), IA, open data, (potentially) expansion of
online freedoms (wearing my Electronic Frontiers Australia board
member hat).

I believe there's unrealised potential for IAs (especially those of us
with interests and expertise in taxonomy, folksonomy and ontology) to
help with data journailsm. I must admit the term is new to me, though
I've been actively involved in examination of several of the datasets
Eric mentions (amongst others).

More than anything, the IA's capacity to take large buckets of data
and identify and expose structure and themes in that data is, I think,
somewhere we can add value.

I'll be giving a talk at a conference in March around the issue of
open data (amongst other matters), it's intrinsic and often unrealised
social and economic value, with a particular focus on public sector
information (as the public sector is where I do the bulk of my work).

Steve
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