Re: [Sigia-l] the role of IAs in Data Journalism?
Stephen Collins <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:06 PM, eric scheid <[email protected]> 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 -- Stephen Collins [email protected] | +61 410 680722 | @trib acidlabs | Conversation. Collaboration. Community. | www.acidlabs.org -- Stephen Collins [email protected] | +61 410 680722 | @trib acidlabs | Conversation. Collaboration. Community. | www.acidlabs.org ------------ 2011 IA Summit March 30 - April 3, 2011 Pre Conference Seminars: March 30-31 IA Summit: April 1-3 Hyatt Regency Convention Center Denver, CO ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l