Over one and a half years ago i embarked onto the mission to bring geographic metadata to the wires of dpa. After quite some convincing in April started defining and redefining the roadmap, the semantics and the syntax of the metadata, designing and building the support process into our editorial systems. Since mid december we are geocoding each and every newsitem in our RegioLine wire.
Now i’m proud to say that our first customer is using this metadata for visualising the news on a newsmap.
With this post i’m starting a mini series about my experiences wrt. geographic metadata during this last one and half years. Especially i want to start a discussion about the semantics for the geographic metadata i’ve defined and report on the obstacles i encountered.
[...] the first installment of this mini-series i announced that dpa-infocom is geocoding it’s regional newswires and that i’m going to [...]
≈ Relations › Going Places - Great news from Adrian Holovaty
1 Feb 08 at 6:19 pm
[...] these either as comments or via mail to relations at ka2 dot de. Earlier Parts of this miniseries: Part I: Adding geographic metadata to news at the source, Part II: Great news from Adrian Holovaty, Part III: Early Experiments, [...]
≈ Relations › Going Places - Places in News stories vs. Places of News stories
26 Feb 08 at 9:33 am
[...] expect a number of articles tagged goingplaces this week. Earlier Parts of this miniseries: Part I: Adding geographic metadata to news at the source, Part II: Great news from Adrian Holovaty, Part III: Early Experiments, Part IV: Places in News [...]
≈ Relations › Going Places - Some formalization
2 Jun 08 at 8:23 am