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The weddings and celebrations section of The New York Times can sometimes read like a Mad Lib: insert Ivy League degree here, mother’s medical specialty there. Now, couples submitting their nuptials to the Times can do so with an online form that will truly automate the process. And while input fields and dialog boxes may kill some of the romance, the new system actually has intriguing potential for improving rote journalistic tasks. In a memo to staffers today, Jonathan Landman (deputy managing editor for digital) and Denise Warren (general manager of the website) explained: It’s an online form, part of a system-wide data universe project meant to turn random facts rendered in hard-to-manage text into well-organized data. Anybody who is registered on nytimes.com can use it.
NYT wedding announcements marry the semantic web » Nieman Journalism Lab
Everything You Wanted to Know About Semantic Technology, But Were Afraid to Ask (at SemTech 09)
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. This one is by Hakia, one of the participants in the recent 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. Participants in the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference walked away considering fundamental questions about what is and isn't semantic technology.
Much has been said on the topic of the Semantic Web, but it's not always easy to gauge how it will change the way we work. Silver Oliver provides an overview of how the Semantic Web will affect users and applications, not to mention the role of the information professional. What's Inside
