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Automatically Structuring Unstructured Corporate Websites for Producing a Company Search Engine (via http://semanticweb.com)

February 9th, 2012 at 13:06

An automatic approach to Telefónica’s use case in the INSEMTIVES project: http://www.insemtives.eu/case_studies.php

According to this article: “We have used a sophisticated array of AI/Machine Learning systems in combination with statistical methods, background knowledge and expert defined rules engines, to create, entirely automatically, a structured database with high quality information. The example we have produced contains structured company records and fields for over 2 million IT and telecoms companies using data taken from their websites.”

You can read the whole article here: http://semanticweb.com/automatically-structuring-unstructured-corporate-websites-for-producing-a-company-search-engine_b10713

Apart from the expert’s involvement when creating rules for knowledge extraction, can the final users really be ignored or taken out of the loop when structuring unstructured corporate websites? Post your comment below ;-)

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Tags: automatic, knowledge extraction, semantic web, structuring
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The channel: tagging TV and temporal metadata (via http://www.appmarket.tv)

February 2nd, 2012 at 14:55

Historically, TV metadata has been used to supply Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) and therefore has been adequate for description at a show level. Typically when the industry talks about TV metadata, they talk about snippets of information and images provided by companies such as Rovi and Gracenote that can be used for the descriptive editorial information, images and multimedia on one show as a whole.

But what about at the scene level? And why is temporal metadata — or Tagging TV — the new oil?

You can find it out having a look at the original entry at http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/1531-the-channel-tagging-tv-and-temporal-metadata.html

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Tags: metadata, tagging, temporal, TV, video
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Using Tags to Increase Findability (via http://idratherbewriting.com)

January 28th, 2012 at 21:20

Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web (2008), by Gene Smith. Smith dives into tagging as a method for adding metadata to resources, which in turn increases the organization and findability of the resources.

What’s cool about tags is that you can easily tag the same information with multiple tags. Does the information fall in #techcomm, #contentstrategy, and #findability disciplines? You don’t have to choose one folder to assign the content to. With tags, resources can live in multiple places at once.

Tagging is emerging as one of the most common ways to organize resources on the web. Smith notes that Delicious, a social bookmarking site that first appeared in 2003, was one of the first instances of tagging to emerge online. However, he also notes that classification and metadata strategies have been ongoing for centuries, with the Dewey Decimal system as one of the prime examples.

You can read the whole blog entry at http://idratherbewriting.com/2011/12/26/using-tags-to-increase-findability/

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Tags: annotation, book, tagging
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“Anything can be fun” by Stefanie Hermann

January 27th, 2012 at 17:17

Stefanie Hermann from the Reutlingen University in Germany has recently completed her master’s thesis on gamification. You can access an extract of this master’s thesis including research results and empirical data ascertainment adjusted for the interview of gamification experst at http://es.scribd.com/ivan3856/d/79357823-Stefanie-Hermann-Gamification-Master-Thesis-Extract

 

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Tags: analysis, empirical, gamification, report, thesis
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GreenGoose, live more playfully

January 27th, 2012 at 17:07

GreenGoose add game mechanics to real life. They provide wireless sensors that have a battery inside which lasts a year. Each one measures a different thing you do, but they all communicate with the same egg-sized base-station. Just stick to items like pet food scoops, frisbees and water bottles.

Have more fun doing everyday things! GreenGoose is a place where you can download and play real-world apps.

Feel closer to those important to you. Examples: has your dog been walked or fed? Are the kids home from school? Has your grandma taken her medicine?

Make playtime more about playing together. Sensors on toys make it fun to share and make new friends.

With more than 100 sensors in development, we have a lot more fun on its way. Keep an eye out for new sensors to add to your base-station. For developers, we have a developer’s page so you dig into our API and get information about upcoming sensors!

More info at http://www.greengoose.com

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Tags: engagement, game mechanics, gamification, motivation, real life
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