INFO 202 Fall 08 Blog

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=41225&sectioncode=7

I came across this a bit old story about a project undertaken by Tim Berners lee. The project aims at creating a system to feed important metadata like journalist’s profile, way the news story was created etc. to create a rich metadata set which will provide more credibility to the news story and also provide more retrieval options.

It also aims to standardize the way this information can be embedded in the news stories to help news aggregators provide us with more accurate and meaningful news. 

“They can be buried anywhere – the first or second paragraph, the beginning of the story, or even the end,” he said. “It just seemed incredible that of all the basic information you might want to know about a story, even such basic things as who wrote it and for who, is extremely hard to get at the moment.”