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I鈥檓 Matt Shearer, Innovation Manager in 主播大秀 News Labs. 主播大秀 News Labs is part of 主播大秀 Connected Studio鈥檚 pan-主播大秀 innovation and collaboration programme.

Since the , we鈥檝e made some good progress, and in the spirit of open innovation, I鈥檇 like to share some updates in two areas with you.

1) Collaboration and Open Innovation

We鈥檝e continued to reach out, share innovation tools and collaborate with News organisations and the academic world. Here are a couple of recent events the News Lab team attended.

Mozilla Festival - October 25-27 2013.

We ran a 主播大秀 News Labs stand at the Mozilla Festival 鈥淪cience Fair鈥� to demonstrate and share the , to talk about , and to see what was going on in the open source, hacker and maker innovation spaces. Innovators at the Fair in the News space included Data Scientists, engineers from News Organisations, with a general theme of "Story-driven Journalism", and a sense of 鈥渨hat can we get from ambient data鈥�.

SeedCamp鈥檚 "Seedhack" - November 8-10 2013.

Earlier in November we took the News Labs APIs and The Juicer to Seedhack (Seedcamp's Hack event at Google Campus) for competing teams there to use as a source of prototyping content with linked data annotations.

The Juicer API set was 1 of 9 sets brought to the event - others were from Facebook, Google, Getty, Nokia Music, Harper Collins, Imagga, EyeEm, et al.

The Seedhack Winner used 主播大秀 News Labs APIs and The Juicer.

The "Best in show" hack "Oppozeit" (pictured below) used the News Labs APIs, and JUICER content to provide the source of content and associated concept tags, and mashed it together with sentiment analysis algorhythms and Getty images to demonstrate opposing views on current News stories side-by-side.

Another prize winner - William Rood - used the News Labs APIs to show a 3D view of people, connected by frequency of co-occurrence in recent News articles.

2) Next steps in Story-driven Journalism

We are continuing our focus on the open data model Storyline as a basis for editorially curating News in structured data. You can find out more about Storyline from Jeremy Tarling , and in this.

Prototyping with Linked Data in the Newsroom

We are exploring internal Newsroom prototypes driven by data from The Juicer (automated concept extraction and linked data annotation) with the News Labs APIs, and using Storyline to tie the content together across the organisation. The aim is to problem space is around helping Jjournalists with content discovery - e.g. 鈥淎s a journalist working in the Newsroom, I need to see what content we have about David Cameron right now in order to write the best story/update鈥�.

Iterating the open News Curation model 鈥淪toryline鈥�.

Led by Jeremy Tarling, we are working with a growing set of News Organisations on the next iteration of the open data model Storyline. Among collaborators are SKY NEWS, The Guardian, FT, PA et al.

#newsHACK II - Spring 2014

We are planning #newsHACK II, for Spring 2014. The focus of the event is likely to be on 鈥淭he next generation of News Curation鈥�, and we plan to bring the latest News Labs APIs to the event, along with a suite of open data from the 主播大秀 and partners. We expect to be making an announcement on date and location during January 2014.

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Matt Shearer is Innovation Manager, 主播大秀 News Labs