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Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
BreadcrumbsCRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto
A social network based on the relations established by collections of fragments taken from online news
The CoLab Annual Conference21-22 September, 2010Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
We live in an age of digital information!
etc.
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Newspapers, Blogs, e-pedia’s and...Digital Social Networks...
• Are on the Web• Are in an “online” environment• Are easily reachable and still...• What can be shared?
– URLs– Comments– Likes / dislikes– Forums
Is this enough?
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Production of news:
Web
Journalist
Columnist
Blogger
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Web
Consumption of news:
Readers
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Are readers a sink for information??
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Well, ...
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have access to:• opinions of readers• interests of readers• relations between information they consume• relevancy of parts of news• statistics• sub-communities of readers• trail of the news...
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Take advantage of an old habit
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Clipping: saving news fragments
Personal Digital Library (PDL)
Collected fragments
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Organizing the collected information and adding extra information
TAGS
COMMENTS
RATES
Automatic grouping procedure
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Creating relations between readersstrong relation
weak relation
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Creating a network of fragments
PDL
PDLPDLstrong
strong
strong
weak
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Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Sharing of news fragments, tags, comments, rates, news associations, news sources, interests, statistics, ...
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Web
Cycle between producers and consumers
Information module
Fragments of news, relevancy, tags, associations, comments, relations, statistics...
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDL
PDLs and relations
Breadcrumbs
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Research questions:
• How to integrate automatic and social classification?
• Is this hybrid model better than the two isolated ones?
• How to use and navigate in a network of fragments?
• How to analyse the network?
• Can we infer implicit links between
– Different articles/events/stories?
– Different readers?
• Can we infer interests of readers and the contribution from their participation?
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
The Breadcrumbs teamÁlvaro Reis Figueira, PhD [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto] (PI)
Text mining, clustering and classification, social network analysis
José Paulo Leal, PhD [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto]System’s architectures, structured document processing
Luis-Francisco Revilla, PhD [UT@Austin]Social interfaces, human-computer interaction
Pedro Ribeiro, PhD student [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto]Complex networks, parallel and distributed programming
Fernando Zamith, PhD student [Cetac.Media]Online journalism, social media
Elisabete Cunha, PhD student [Cetac.Media and CRACS-FCUP]
Scalability in unsupervised clustering of folksonomies
Henrique Alves, MSc student [CRACS-FCUP & INESC Porto]Digital libraries, metadata for usage tracking
Project Breadcrumbs :: Álvaro Figueira (PI) :: Presentation at CoLab annual conference :: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian :: 21.09.2010
Thanks for listening!
BreadcrumbsStart date: 20-09-2010End date: 19-09-2012