164 years of entity-based seo by evan sandhaus
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Managing a 164-Year-Old Database
164 Years of Entity-Based SEO
Evan SandhausThe New York Times
Fall 2015
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(me)
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A Brief History Of Tagging Tagging In 2015 Tagging Process Tagging Applications
On The Menu
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*At The New York Times
A Brief History of Tagging*
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A consistent string used to indicate that an authority or a subject is a principal topic of a news article.
Entity: Person Place Organization Title of Creative Work
(Book Title, Movie Title, etc)
Meet The Tag Subject
Everything else: Eggs Iraq War (2003 - 2011)
We’ve been tagging for a LONG TIME
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September 19, 1851: The Journey Begins
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1913: The Tag Turns Pro
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#SMX #23a @kansandhausUniversity of Haifa Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library
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1969: The Tag Goes Online!
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Image Copyright 1976 The New York Times Company Archives
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Image Copyright 1976 The New York Times Company Archives
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We’re Still Doing This!
Tagging in 2015
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We Still MAKE THE INDEX! We also tag articles prior to publication
using supervised automation. Tagging powers many parts of our
operation
Tagging Today
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Tagging Process
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Rule-based information extraction software Teragram Tk240 In service for over a decade
Two tasks (both rule-based) Categorization
Terrorism Eggs Deaths (Obituaries)
Auto Tagging Software Concept Extraction
Obama, Barack Kansas The New York Times
Company
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Or Why We Tag
Tagging Applications
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Topics Pages
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Travel Guides
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Tagging: Additional ApplicationsRecommendations News Alerts
RSS and Syndication AdvertisingAnalytics
SearchArchives
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News Keywords
“Our crawler…makes use of a Google-specific metatag to help determine how to best classify your content. By implementing the news_keywords metatag you can specify which keywords are most relevant to your articles”
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News Keywords Example
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News Keywords ExampleTerm Type News Keyword
Airlines and Airplanes Subject Airlines
Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
Subject Laser
Egan Frank J (1979- ) Person Frank J. Egan
LaGuardia Airport (Queens NY) Place LaGuardia Airport
Pilots Subject Pilots
South Bronx (Bronx NY) Place South Bronx
Federal Aviation Administration Organization FAA
Police Department (NYC) Organization NYPD
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To Sum Up!
1851
2015
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