Tools for Knowledge Junkies: Document Cloud, CALAIS , Linked Data

For all of the knowledge junkies out there, here are a few things that might fuel your passion for interactive information exploration and consumption. Although the tools below were adopted by people in journalism/news related fields, I think that they have potential for use in education and other fields. I'm interested in learning more about how people from different disciplines currently use these tools, and I'd also like more to this list.

CALAIS: "We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application." CALAIS is published by Thomson Reuters
MORE ABOUT CALAIS
PR Video for CALAIS:

How CALAIS Works:

CALAIS for Publishers
CALAIS for Bloggers
CALAIS for Software Providers
CALAIS for Content Managers
CALAIS for Developers
Open CALAIS Content Maps by Jer Thorp

"Jer Thorp is a software artist, writer, and educator. He is a contributing editor for Wired UK. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times."

DOCUMENTCLOUD
"DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each."

DocumentCloud Blog from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
MORE ABOUT DOCUMENT CLOUD
DocumentCloud Merging with IRE 
Amanda Hickman, DocumentCloud, 6/9/11 (Note:  IRE = Investigative Reporters and Editors)
Newsrooms using Document Cloud
Document Cloud: Not Just For Journalists?  (Excellent article!) Konrad Lawson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/8/11 (Konrad is a Ph.D student in the history department at Harvard University.)
For Techies:  Document Cloud's VisualSearch.js | Autocomplete Faceted Search Queries
Losterium Posterious, 7/9/11


LINKED DATA

-linkeddata.org
"Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.""

Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide

"....Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together." At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up."-TED

LDOW2011: Linked Data on the Web workshop


COMMENT
I plan to share more information related to this topic in future posts.  I welcome input and links from my readers!

2011 NAB Show in Vegas: It's not just for broadcasters!

The 2010 NAB Show, a major event sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters, will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-14. The theme of this year's conference is "The Art of Integration: Picture the Possibilities".


The NAB Show has been held for over 85 years and provides a wide range of conferences, sessions, and classes.  This year, the NAB Show continues to address the rapid changes in the industry and related fields. The topics touch on emerging trends in technology, convergence, and ways content is created, distributed, and accessed across platforms and screens of all sizes. 


Below is are quote from the NAB Show website:


"From broadcasting to broader-casting, the NAB Show is the premier event for content professionals who share a passion for bringing content to life on any platform--even if they have to invent it.  From creation to consumption, this i the ultimate place to find everything necessary to bring your vision to life."

"The NAB Show™ is your chance to evolve, innovate and grow your business – in smarter ways that allow you to save time and money in today's economic conditions...More than just broadcasting, the NAB Show is the world’s largest digital media industry event attended by leading media, entertainment and communications professionals who share a passion for the next generation of video and audio content across multiple platforms — from television, radios and computers to phones, the big screen and beyond."    NAB Show Flyer (pdf)

NAB Conferences and Sessions
Telepresence    
Broadcast Engineering    
Master Class in 3D Film-making
Post Production World
Content Lifecycle 
Content Creation : Creating for the Big and Small Screen
Content Management 
Content Commerce, 
Content Distribution and Delivery 
Content Consumption
Super Sessions
Connected TV: Smart Devices, Smart Strategies
Mobile TV: The Path to the Future
UltraViolet: Your Content on Any Device