pundit @internet festival 2016

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Giulio Andreini andreini@netseven.it

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Pundit is used by the following projects

Europeana Sounds Burckhardt Source Looking at words through images StoM (Semlib to Market) Ampere Correspondence Geolat

Pundit as a serviceScuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Index

1. ………….…………. What is Pundit 2. ……………… Pundit for journalists

Pundit?What is?1.

from this… …to this

from paper…*HTML web pages

…to the web*

1.1 Main features

Highlighting

Highlighting

Commenting

Commenting

Creating semantic annotations

Creating semantic annotations

Creating semantic annotations

Replying to other’s annotations

Replying to other’s annotations

1.2 Further functionalities

Dashboard: managing annotations

Annotations are collected in notebooks

Browsing annotations

Searching annotations

Filtering annotations

Exporting annotations

Public and private annotations

forPundit

journalists2.

Use cases

The reading list The personal archive

Writing an article Structured informations

The reading list

The reading list 1/2

While browsing the Web, I find articles and books which I find interesting but I have no

enough time to read them immediately. I want to put them in a list and then access it

later.

Problem

The reading list 2/2

I use Pundit to keep track of web pages and books I will read in the future.

Solution

Personal archive

Personal archive 1/2

While browsing the Web, I find pieces of articles (citations) that I want to store so that I will reuse them when

necessary.

Problem

Personal archive 2/2

I use Pundit to save fragments of text that I highlighted or commented while

reading their pages. My annotations are collected in notebooks.

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My annotations can be retrieved and reused later. Their link to the original

pages acts as a bookmark as well.

Solution

Writing an article

Writing an article 1/2Problem

While writing an article, I need information from the web. In order to collect and reuse them, I need a way

more efficient then the simple copy and paste.

I use Pundit to look for info to be reused while writing an article: social networks, blogs,

institutional websites and other resources. !

All the fragments of highlighted text and my comments are collected in a notebook which I

can browse in my dashboard and export.

Writing an article 2/2Solution

Structured information

Structured information 1/12

Texts, paragraphs and relevant fragments are hard to be retrieved and reused.

I need a way to find the relations between them and understand if they can be used to

build stories.

Problem

Structured information 2/12

Pundit is used to select pieces of text on the web and to enrich them with more info. It enables you to create “atoms of

information” that can be searched, reused, exported and visualized in many

ways.

Solution

Structured information 3/12

We start from web pages where to find portions which are the basis to build “atoms of

information”.

Solution

Structured information 4/12

Each piece of text is annotate and enriched of new info

Atoms of informations

Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Structured information 5/12Demo

I’m interested on racial abuses by police officers in US.

I create an “atom of information”: CBS Los Angeles

Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Storia

Tipo di evento

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Luogo

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Storia

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Storia

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Structured information 6/12Disorder?

I create an unordered cloud of “atoms of information”.

Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Structured information 7/12Creating a story

But this is not disorganized information. My semantic enrichment enables me to perform advanced searches and to obtain results which

respond exactly to the complex queries I have in my mind.

What am I interested in? !

Story US police abuses Event (type of ) Shooting People Police officer, afro-american Date From 1980 to 2016 Place New York

Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

Data

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Storia

Tipo di evento

Persone

Luogo

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Storia

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Storia

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Structured information 8/12Creating a story

Structured information 9/12Creating a story

Structured information 10/12Reuse 1: writing an article

Structured information 11/12Reuse 2: creating apps for data visualization

Structured information 12/12Reuse 3: users build their own stories

Thank you

Giulio Andreini andreini@netseven.it

thepund.it info@thepund.it @_thepundit

Links… !

Pundit website thepund.it Pundit Annotator thepund.it/annotator