Administering A 160-year-old Database Knowledge Management At The New York Times

author: Evan Sandhaus, New York Times
published: Jan. 31, 2012, recorded: January 2012, views: 189

Slides

Slides
0:00	Administering A 160- Year-Old Database
1:32	Agenda
2:08	The New York Times Comapny
3:07	Evan Sandhaus
4:01	First Foray Into Semantics?
4:21	Semantics in the early 20th Century
4:29	Page 1 of April 16 th 1912 Edition of The New York Times
4:52	Old NYT Headquarters
5:13	Adolph Ochs Publisher: 1896 - 1935
5:32	The Annalist
5:34	Adolph Ochs Publisher: 1896 - 1935
6:10	The Annalist
6:24	Current History
6:40	Index (1)
7:03	Index (2)
7:13	Index (3)
7:26	Old NYT HQ 10th Floor Reference Library
7:45	National Papers
7:51	Index of the New-York Times (1)
8:31	Index of the New-York Times (2)
8:48	Index of the New-York Times (3)
9:05	Index of the New-York Times (4)
9:37	Index of the New-York Times (5)
9:46	Today
10:06	Descriptors Locations People Organizations
10:50	Why Tag? (1)
12:10	Why Tag? (2)
12:53	Linked Data (1)
13:17	Linked Data (2)
13:24	Linked Data (3)
13:38	Linked Data (4)
13:43	Linked Data (5)
13:47	Linked Data (6)
13:51	Linked Data (7)
13:52	Linked Data (8)
13:54	Linked Data (9)
13:57	Linked Data (10)
14:53	Linked Data (11)
14:55	Linked Data (12)
15:08	Subject Headings
15:27	Index? (1)
15:29	Index? (2)
15:30	Tags
17:09	DBpedia
17:28	Wikipedia
18:25	DBPedia
18:53	Freebase/Google
20:09	Geonames (1)
20:21	Geonames (2)
20:27	Geonames (3)
21:20	Geonames (4)
21:44	Mapping Progress
22:01	data.nytimes.com
22:50	data.nytimes.com cc
23:07	Semantic API
25:49	What We’ve Learned (So Far) (1)
26:11	What We’ve Learned (So Far) (2)
28:18	Adding Ontological Context (1)
28:26	What We’ve Learned (So Far) (2)
29:18	Adding Ontological Context (1)
29:31	Adding Ontological Context (2)
29:44	The Problem Of Geography (1)
29:59	The Problem Of Geography (2)
30:05	The Problem Of Geography (3)
30:14	The Problem Of Geography (4)
30:29	The Problem Of Geography (5)
30:38	But With Linked Data (Geonames)
31:08	Auto Aligning Data
31:27	Automated Data Alignment (1)
31:44	Automated Data Alignment (2)
32:03	Automated Data Alignment (3)
32:09	Automated Data Alignment (4)
32:50	Automated Data Alignment (5)
32:59	Automated Data Alignment (6)
33:25	Non Traditional Aggregation
33:44	A New News Map (1)
33:48	A New News Map (2)
34:10	A New News Map (3)
34:28	A New News Map (4)
34:45	A New News Map (5)
34:48	Alumni In The News (1)
35:13	Alumni In The News (2)
35:58	Standing Tall (1)
36:20	Standing Tall (2)
40:18	Future Directions (1)
43:49	Future Directions (2)
44:53	rNews Embedded Data For The News Industry
45:35	IPTC (1)
46:23	IPTC (2)
46:37	Why we need Semantic Markup (1)
46:54	Why we need Semantic Markup (2)
47:12	Story components which are obvious to a person…
47:21	...are not so obvious to a machine.
47:31	The Problem of Structured Data
47:53	The Problem Of Structured Data: Continued (1)
48:29	The Problem Of Structured Data: Continued (2)
48:57	The Problem Of Structured Data: Continued (3)
49:11	The Case of the Missing Structured Data
49:23	Semantic Markup Standards (1)
50:05	Semantic Markup Standards (2)
50:50	Semantic Markup Standards (3)
50:52	rNews
50:54	rNews Defined
51:05	rNews is a data model
51:09	for embedding machine-readable publishing metadata in web documents
51:33	and a set of suggested implementations
52:00	How Does rNews Fit in With Existing IPTC Standards
52:31	rNews - Timeline
53:07	rNews - Class Diagram
54:40	rNews - Working Example (1)
55:04	rNews - Working Example (2)
55:13	HTML 5 Microdata
55:55	RDFa
56:48	The Way to rNews (1)
56:53	The Way to rNews (2)
57:01	Engaging Our Community (1)
57:05	Engaging Our Community (2)
57:06	Engaging Our Community (3)
57:09	Engaging Our Community (4)
57:20	Feedback we incorporated... (1)
57:23	Feedback we incorporated... (2)
57:25	Shema.org
58:59	Thing > CreativeWork
59:01	rnews.org

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The New York Times published its first issue on September 18, 1851. Over 58,000 days have passed in the ensuing 160 years and, in that time, The Times has printed, indexed and databased well over 15 million articles, reviews, editorials and obituaries. This is a lot of data. In my talk I will discuss several interesting aspects of our knowledge management history and detail three recent approaches The Times has employed to manage our ever-growing news archive with an emphasis on Linked Data and Semantic Markup. Specifically I will discuss our Linked Open Data Initiatives and provide an overview of rNews - a recently-developed standard for embedding publishing metadata in HTML documents.