Data Journalism Meetup Berlin, September 1st 2010
After two successful Web of Data meetups in London with 200 guests each, it was time to bring the Web of Data meetup to Berlin.
Data Journalism and the new and exciting possibilities that the Web of Data opens up for creators and consumers of news and media online will be the topic of this first meetup in Berlin on September 1st 2010.
We have a brilliant lineup of speakers from media organisations like the BBC, The Guardian, the Deutsche Presse Agentur, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and ZEIT Online coming to Berlin and talking about data journalism and the latest development and projects in this field. Join the Berlin meetup group and sign up for the event now. Thanks to my friends at Fjord and at the Open Knowledge Foundation for their help and support!
When live data matters
Who is Michael Ballack? Let’s see what some Linked Data services which use Wikipedia as a data source say about him.
Why does the Semantic Web feel so over-engineered?
Following the discussions in the Semantic Web community, to build an ontology for any use case whatsoever appears to be a heavy task . But isn’t the promise of the Semantic Web that everything is so agile, that a data schema can be changed easily, and that it can evolve over time?
The web as a CMS for data
Tom Scott wrote one year ago a great post about using the web as a CMS at the BBC, in which he describes how BBC editors contribute to websites like Musicbrainz and Wikipedia, and pull the content for their own web offerings like BBC Music from these community websites instead of forking off and curating their own internal music database. I’m a big fan of this concept, and yet I just realized that I overlooked an important aspect. I was thinking only about the Web instead of the web. Marginal difference? Not at all…
With a Web of Data, what would you do?
There is so much excitement about Linked Data, Open Data, and in general the emerging Web of Data. Consensus appears to be to just get data out on the Web, and hope for amazing things will happen. Well, but what could these amazing things look like?
If we had a Web of Data, what would you build?
I’d like to start a challenge to get people to talk about some more concrete ideas for applications.
